Comment by surgical_fire

> The "100x productive" thing is some kind of bogeyman.

> If you didn't notice a difference between AI assisted coding in Jan 2025 and now beyond "marginal" improvements... well to be frank I don't think you've really been paying very close attention.

Those are the same claims, just phrased differently. If the first is a bogeyman, so is the second.

And of course, if someone disagrees that the improvements since 2025 were not dramatic, they can only possibly not be paying attention. Except we have been seeing the same claims on a daily basis for years.