Comment by aprilthird2021

I work at a similar scale company. Like an average person's experience, some things are amazing and super productive with AI and some things aren't. And it's not always the same things all the time.

Sometimes we are able to do a ground up rewrite of a service and squeeze huge efficiency gains out of it all bc AI is helpful in doing so and we have a very good test harness.

Sometimes it makes subtly wrong suggestions that people follow and cause outages.

Sometimes it leads to huge headaches for devs who have to review huge backlogs of code with no idea which parts are serious and which are low effort AI slop.

Sometimes it lets you do a 2 month project in 2 weeks.