Hsu: AI coding assistants only speed up development by 10% to 20%
David Hsu · The State of AI in production — with David Hsu of Retool · Feb 7, 2024 · at 19:35
David Hsu (founder/CEO of Retool) discusses the real-world developer productivity impact of AI code generation tools like GitHub Copilot.
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“If you talk to most engineers today, like, a lot of engineers do use Copilot but if you ask them, like, how much time does Copilot save you, it's not like coding is tenx faster than before. You know, coding is maybe, like, 10% faster, maybe 20% faster, or something like that, basically. And so, it's not like a huge step change, actually”
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