Mixed
It's not always optimally productive in the sense that more things get thrown away or end up just not really working out, but overall they move significantly faster and do more interesting work
calebkaiser on Hacker News
In the thread “It's still ok to enjoy programming”, replying to this comment
Helped: Permission to try ambitious things and move faster.
Got in the way: Forcing 8x workload with same tasks creates misery.
… I think a consistent difference is that in these companies, it feels like the engineers now have permission to try wildly ambitious things. It's not always optimally productive in the sense that more things get thrown away or end up just not really working out, but overall they move significantly faster and do more interesting work. Commonly, it's things they wanted to do before, but simply weren't realistic with their constraints around capacity. …