Engineering video
0:47 · 17 August 2025
The speaker explains: university of Stanford research shows AI makes developers roughly 10 to 15 percent more productive on typical software engineering tasks, providing tangible empirical analysis compared to exaggerated industry CEO claims.
Hear it at 0:00 →I want to talk about one of the latest studies on software engineering productivity. It comes from the University of Stanford, what they found out is that on average, on your typical software engineering task, AI will make you around 10 to 15% more productive. Which is a very, very low number compared to the claims we've seen from most CEOs in the industry. And so we saw a traffic CEO saying that in three to six months, AI will be writing 90% of the code and developers will basically be unemployed or managing AI.
So very different information, but I feel like we finally got some real tangible empirical analysis of what AI and how much AI can actually help us as developers.
