Dare Obasanjo

Following the launch of Claude Code, US GitHub code pushes were 30% above the pre-2025 trend.

Similarly iOS app releases were up 55% vs last January, and new website registrations rose 34% year over year globally after years of flatlining.

AI productivity gains have hit software in a major way.

https://www.ft.com/content/5ac2ee5f-f8bd-4f39-a759-3c5c50c8b37e

Feb 27 at 1:19pmWeb
Show threadMark LevisonFeb 27

@carnage4life productive or technical debt?

Read: https://agilepainrelief.com/blog/ai-generated-code-quality-problems/ for details on the increase in defect density etc

AI-Generated Code Quality and the Challenges we all face

Research shows AI-generated code has 1.7x more issues than human code. Analysis of several studies reveals growing technical debt and complexity with GenAI tools.

Agile Pain Relief
Show threadstonedonkey 🕹️🎮👾Feb 27
@mlevison This was exactly my question, how many of those commits were fixing broken code due to AI injecting unexpected results.
Show threadMark LevisonFeb 27
@stonedonkey I did the digging: https://agilepainrelief.com/blog/ai-generated-code-quality-problems/
AI-Generated Code Quality and the Challenges we all face

Research shows AI-generated code has 1.7x more issues than human code. Analysis of several studies reveals growing technical debt and complexity with GenAI tools.

Agile Pain Relief
Show threadstonedonkey 🕹️🎮👾Feb 27
@mlevison yikes.
Show threadMark LevisonFeb 27

@stonedonkey this has been my reading for most of the past month.

FWIW some in the Agile community claim they’re doing better work with these tools. I just wish these claims were tested.

Also in the department of honesty. I do use these tools to automate work that wouldn’t otherwise get done.

Show threadstonedonkey 🕹️🎮👾Feb 27

@mlevison I've been testing it with my personal projects and I bounce between amazed/enamored to oh dear what is that it just created.

I can see why non-coders love it, you can get to prototype quick... whether those people should be building prototypes is a question I'd argue in another thread.

Show threadK0binFeb 27
@carnage4life People spamming slop is not a productivity gain. It's not a coincidence that GitHub added the option to disable PRs.
Show threaddavidvedvickFeb 27
@carnage4life *points to sign* -> "lines of code is not a useful metric"
Show threadggdupontFeb 27
@carnage4life
(I haven't read the article yet)
All these numbers related to "creating artifacts productivity". What about the "creating value" productivity?