Mixed
juniors and even experienced new hires with little domain knowledge don't improve as fast as they used to
orwin on Hacker News
25%
In the thread “Ask HN: Why there are no actual studies that show AI is more productive?”, replying to this comment
Helped: Frontend changes and red teaming small tools.
Got in the way: Juniors not leveling up fast enough for hard automation.
… Three months ago, with opus4.5, I would have said that the productivity improvement was ~10% for my whole team. I now have to contradict myself: juniors and even experienced new hires with little domain knowledge don't improve as fast as they used to. I still have to write new tasks/issue like I would have for someone we just hired, after 8 months. …