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NoClaude Code · 14 Jan 2026

overall, developer productivity has plummeted despite the self-reported productivity survey conveying developers felt it had shot through the roof

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developer productivity has plummeted

In the thread “LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Self-reported productivity surveys did not match actual output metrics.

> The productivity gains I'm seeing right now are unprecedented. My company just released a year-long productivity chart covering our shift to Claude Code, and overall, developer productivity has plummeted despite the self-reported productivity survey conveying developers felt it had shot through the roof.