Increase output with same staff etc doesn’t necessarily help the firm financially…
Raw engineering productivity is irrelevant. Managers are employed by shareholders to make them wealthier - long term this comes in the form of incremental positive cash flows.
“ But this isn't necessarily a good thing, companies still need to understand what to build in order to ship a cohesive product”
In other words writing more code means fk all without vision, strategy, taste etc. Google has had lots of engineers on many projects - look at the grave yard. The constraint on progress is not code.
Wake me up when this dumb experiment is over. Some of us are years ahead it seems until others get in the same page of understanding
lolwat
sarcasm surely