> All I hear is anecdotal statements from people claiming LLMs have made them some percent more productive. Yet few actually say how or demonstrate it.
It's very difficult to measure productivity of most people, certainly most people in office jobs, so while you can have a gut feeling that you're doing better, it's no more measurable than pre-AI individual productivity measurement was
It’s not really about objective measurements, but practical applications. Like try this in the following manner and compare it to your previous workflow. Sensible advices like the ones found in The Pragmatic Programmer.
Sure, so it's always going to be annecdotal. That doesn't mean the benefits don't exist, just means they can't be objectively measured. Just like we can't objectively measure the output of a single knowlege worker, especially output on a single day
It's very difficult to measure productivity of most people, certainly most people in office jobs, so while you can have a gut feeling that you're doing better, it's no more measurable than pre-AI individual productivity measurement was