AI coding agents produce more code but not more work: smaller economic gains?
paulnovosad · x · 2026-09-26
A widely-shared argument holds that AI coding agents are generating far more code without much more work actually getting done, suggesting smaller economic gains than expected.
Economist paulnovosad pushes back: he suspects firm-level decision makers simply aren't fully utilizing the technology yet, rather than the tech having limited value. A useful data point in the AI-economics debate.
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