Torvalds: AI Is the New Compiler, Not the New Programmer

Even Linus is conflating “doing more” with “being more productive”. A car factory could, if they wanted, pump 10x more cars out the door. But qualiry would decrease these would be full of defects, so in the end you weren’t more productive

I don’t care if there’s more PRs. It’s just and illusion of productivity

Productivity = Doing more things Efficiency = Doing the right things

I wrote a whole thesis on the subject AMA

Depends on what your metric for “productive” is. If you’re producing more cars that have to all be recalled and fixed, you’re not making more money than you would had you made higher quality cars from the start, and you then also lose face and your brand is viewed as inferior, so sales drop, and the spiral goes brr.