A productivity boost from LLMs may just mean the team was far below the market top 10%
serrjoa · x · 2026-07-26
A sharp take on claims that LLMs are boosting productivity.
The post argues that if a company says LLMs increased productivity by K%, that may actually imply its engineers and researchers were previously far below the market’s top 10% — otherwise there wouldn’t have been so much headroom to improve.
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