How much does AI really boost an engineering team's output, according to A Life Engineered?

Steve Huynh's guest says the hard-to-fake test is taking a team of five or ten engineers, looking at what they produce over six months, and estimating what they would have produced in that time without AI. From informal versions of this study with clients, he estimates reasonable AI use adds about 20% to the economic value a team produces, and he has not personally seen anything near a tenfold gain.

• The guest calls this gap the metric that is very difficult to fake, unlike tickets or token counts.

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