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Anthropic's employees self-report using Claude in 60% of work and achieving a 50% productivity boost, often using it for debugging and code understanding, more (Anthropic) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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I've started to assume that anything that Anthropic says about AI is bullshit based on 1000 articles breathlessly claiming "AI did this thing without ever being told" when in actuality it was specifically trained and/or prompted to do exactly that thing.

For experienced developers against codebases they are very familiar with. In newer codebases, coding can be a long tail of things you are not experienced with, which AI accelerates. A 50% productivity boost in this context I think is realistic. If you know everything already, AI inhibits you.

Idk about anthropic, but at many tech companies your performance review includes how much you use AI, and if you don't use it enough they ding you for it. So of course people say they use it a lot and that it's helpful. If they don't or they think it hurts their productivity they get fired.