How were you measuring productivity gains (prior to the dashboard)?

Without going too into detail, my company is really, really big on estimates and predictable delivery timelines. An entire years worth of work is speced out, estimated, and scheduled by the end of October the previous year. It's a really terrible process, IMO, but it's the process so it is what it is.

Normally, most teams (mine included) are about 10% behind their plan by the end of Q1. This year my team is closer to 10% ahead despite the fact that we're down one engineer due to a small re-org at the end of last year. These projects were planned and estimated before AI was in heavy use and when, at best, most AI focused devs were still using it like smart auto-complete. Essentially, we estimated the projects before AI was heavily used and we're consistently beating those estimates by a good amount which is not how all previous years have gone.

The AI metrics dashboards didn't roll out until mid-March and, while I'm still seeing us beat our estimates from last year, we're not seeing any additional gains. Basically, all of Q1 we had AI and no dashboards and were beating 2025 estimates by X%. For Q2 we had dashboards and extra pressure to use AI and we're still seeing those X% gains, but no additional gains despite higher token usages.

We also have KPIs around completing a certain number of a certain type of Jira ticket that customers can file and we've seen a similar pattern of an sharp increase in tickets completed in Dec-Feb and then the new rate holds, but no additional increase after the company started pushing AI usage.

I fear it's only a matter of time until someone with nothing to lose does more than throw a molotov as Sama's house.

who cares? just like the uhc ceo, they will get replaced.

working class is replaceable. So is the "executive" class. Only the billionaire/epstein class will prevail in this hyper capitalistic society.

Imagine other possibilities.

Cloudflare has been going all-in on agents/agent-first and this is one of the results?

Ghostty is mainly Zig aside from the UI parts.

Wouldn’t boomerang have been a better name?

Or, since what it does is some checks for the checksum: `checksomechecksum`

Did you do this test through OpenRouter?

Yes, but locked to the official DeepSeek provider since it's the only one that has the discounted pricing.

How can you even trace it if they’re using crypto?

Doesn’t take into account that a lot of additional services, such as GitHub Actions, have been added since the acquisition.

Interesting approach. How do you do the merging? Is it manual? Just changed files? A hybrid?

Does anyone remember that Pokédex game that the original Pokemon website had in the late 90s where you could collect/unlock Pokémon? I feel like you could trade them too but maybe not. I tried to ask ChatGPT but it doesn’t seem to know exactly what I’m talking about. Maybe this is a Mandela effect thing.