Comment by bitwize

I keep hearing anecdata that suggest significant to huge productivity increases—"a task that would have taken me weeks now takes hours" is common. There is currently not a whole lot of research that supports that, however:

1) there hasn't been a whole lot of research into AI productivity period;

2) many of the studies that have been done (the 2025 METR study for example) are both methodologically flawed and old, not taking into account the latest frontier models

3) corporate transitions to AI-first/AI-native organizations are nowhere near complete, making companywide productivity gains difficult to assess.

However, it isn't hard to find stories on Hackernews from devs about how much time generative AI has saved them in their work. If the time savings is real, and you refuse to take advantage of it, you are stealing from your employer and need to get with the program.

As for IDEs, if you're working in C# and not using Visual Studio, or Java and not using JetBrains, then no—you are not working as efficiently as you could be.