AI speeds up coding inputs — but has product quality actually improved? An open empirical question
salgar · x · 2026-09-24
Alex Olegimas raises an empirical question he'd love to see more data on: beyond AI products like the Muse assistant, have firms actually shipped higher-quality or genuinely different products after adopting AI as an input?
- Everyone touts input speedups (lines of code, faster shipping), e.g. Spotify claiming far more productive coders with almost all code AI-written.
- But has the Spotify app gotten better? Do customers value new features?
The gap between input metrics and output quality remains largely unmeasured — the core of the AI productivity narrative needs this evidence.
Related event: Economists urge focus on AI output gains, not input metrics(2 posts)→
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