HACKER Q&A
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Did AI tools measurably increase productivity of your engineering teams?


I lead a small engineering team and while basically everyone is enthusiastically using claude code and the like there is not really an obvious change of output.

Of course this has always been hard to quantify but the number of tickets completed every week is roughly steady. This does not seem to match self reported efficiency gains.

How has this been going for you?


  👤 co_king_5 Accepted Answer ✓
I laid off half of my UI team (4 developers) and replaced them with $2000 per month per head of Claude API tokens.

Productivity has never been higher.

This new wave of models is seriously something different -- this is nothing like GPT 4.0; this is real intelligence.