This is mostly covered by other comments, but I’ll give my personal experience. I’m a programmer, and I have seen at least a 5x increase in programming speed. However, my output is limited by Amdahl’s law. 50% of my process is coding, but 50% is in non-programming tasks that haven’t been accelerated, meaning the overall process take 60% as long as originally.
What’s more, that’s just my portion. When I complete a project and hand it off, the executives can’t absorb it any faster, and my next assignment doesn’t come any faster. My team doesn’t work from an infinite backlog. Notably, my code is much higher quality (no more “eh, I’ll get to that eventually”) and always exhibits best practices and proper documentation, since those elements are now free.
To take another example, I have used my accelerated programming speed to create several side project websites recently. Every part of this process has been accelerated, except for non-programming elements like spreading the word. That area is a bottleneck, and that’s just my portion; even if I were keeping up with “marketing”, there is a limit to how fast other parts of the information pipeline could absorb this new information and disseminate it, and how long adoption would take.
This is mostly covered by other comments, but I’ll give my personal experience. I’m a programmer, and I have seen at least a 5x increase in programming speed. However, my output is limited by Amdahl’s law. 50% of my process is coding, but 50% is in non-programming tasks that haven’t been accelerated, meaning the overall process take 60% as long as originally.
What’s more, that’s just my portion. When I complete a project and hand it off, the executives can’t absorb it any faster, and my next assignment doesn’t come any faster. My team doesn’t work from an infinite backlog. Notably, my code is much higher quality (no more “eh, I’ll get to that eventually”) and always exhibits best practices and proper documentation, since those elements are now free.
To take another example, I have used my accelerated programming speed to create several side project websites recently. Every part of this process has been accelerated, except for non-programming elements like spreading the word. That area is a bottleneck, and that’s just my portion; even if I were keeping up with “marketing”, there is a limit to how fast other parts of the information pipeline could absorb this new information and disseminate it, and how long adoption would take.