Author(s): The AIExplorer Originally published on Towards AI. Photo by Danial Igdery on UnsplashA founder I was talking to last quarter pulled up his engine ...
Author(s): The AIExplorer
Originally published on Towards AI.
Photo by Danial Igdery on Unsplash
A founder I was talking to last quarter pulled up his engineering dashboard on a video call, practically beaming. Commit volume up. Pull requests up. Everyone on Copilot, Cursor, or Claude. Then I asked how many of those PRs had actually shipped to production that month. He went quiet, clicked around for a minute, and said, “Huh.”
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