Yes
I did measure a 12x productivity increase [1]
jwr on Hacker News
12x productivity increase
In the thread “Mythical Man Month”
Helped: Working on design documents to turn ideas into coherent designs.
… This time, I'm not so sure: AI does change things significantly. Perhaps not for all teams and not all scales of software, but in my case (solo developer, complex software system) I did measure a 12x productivity increase [1]. Also, some of the problems Brooks describes became much easier, if not borderline trivial with AI. …