Comment by whstl

Also there is also category C: they are not developers and they don't care about the code at all, but also not really much about the product. They just want to tick the boxes.

They blindly accept that LLMs "take time" after the slop grows because they're running several agents at the same time, so they can still claim to be productive.

Does it move the needle, business wise? Not really. But a lot of businesses are "optimising" for maximum token usage and for how many tasks one person can do, not for business value. Is it really surprising?