Shovelware may not be a good way to track additional productivity.
That said, I’m skeptical that AI is as helpful for commercial software. It’s been great for in automating my workflow because I suck at shell scripting and AI is great at it. But most of the code I write I honestly halfway don’t know what I’m going to write until I write it. The prompt itself is where my thinking goes - so the time savings would be fairly small, but I also think I’m fairly skilled (except at scripting).
That said, I’m skeptical that AI is as helpful for commercial software. It’s been great for in automating my workflow because I suck at shell scripting and AI is great at it. But most of the code I write I honestly halfway don’t know what I’m going to write until I write it. The prompt itself is where my thinking goes - so the time savings would be fairly small, but I also think I’m fairly skilled (except at scripting).