The AI Coding Lie: Productivity Hype or Bust?

A seasoned programmer with 28 years of experience challenges the claims of AI coding tools, revealing a six-week experiment that showed no significant productivity gains, and potentially even a slowdown. The author argues that the industry's hype around AI-driven productivity increases is vastly overblown, unsupported by real-world data. Using extensive data, the article demonstrates the lack of an expected surge in software development output, debunking the myth of the '10x engineer'. The author urges developers to approach AI tools critically, avoid blind adoption, and resist unrealistic marketing claims.