LLMs and Performative Productivity

The main winners in a gold rush are the ones selling pickaxes, and it sure seems to me like the token vendors are about the only ones who really stand to gain from most of this, if we’re adhering to any coherent, holistic definition of productivity.

I wonder how much of the supposed productivity gains are either eaten up by reviewing the pull requests, or later, fixing the tech debt and bugs caused by the code generators. But if the AI companies can convince your boss they can get more work out of you, whelp, there's the ball game.