Do AI tools make developers 56% more productive, 26% more productive or — as a recent METR study showed — 19% less productive?
The answer is, as always, it depends. Throwing AI tools at developers won’t magically solve all of their problems. On the other hand, I regularly talk to developer productivity leaders from companies like Netflix, Slack, Shopify or LinkedIn at Hangar DX podcast, and they all agree that AI is a developer productivity force multiplier.
Sridhar Ramakrishnan, who leads the Developer Experience team at Slack and…








