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The productivity math behind AI coding stops adding up in public

The Atlantic, Oct 12 · read the original

The Atlantic and Ars Technica both argue, the same day, that AI coding agents are generating more code without generating more software, landing the week Epic Games delays a Disney project while telling its own developers to lean harder on AI tools to hit the next deadline.

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