If you ask engineers how much time they think they’re saving with AI, they’ll often give optimistic answers. But when you compare that sentiment with real quantitative data, the numbers don’t add up.
People tend to think about personal time savings in isolation: “I finished my PR faster.” That pull request (PR) might sit unreviewed for three days before being tested, fail in testing and bounce back for fixes. The result is inefficiencies across the engineering organization that eat up any productivity gained.
Most engineering…