Are they coding faster? The METR 2025 study shows LLM users feel faster but are actually slower. If LLMs make programmers more productive, then awesome LLM–written software is available everywhere for a low price — so where is it?
Why would any company past the savings on to you? Besides “no one ever got fired for buying IBM”. No company is going to replace SalesForce with a vibe coded alternative they find out about on “Ask HN”. Coding has never been the issue with having a successful project. Look at all of the companies who were crushed by BigTech just throwing a few developers at the same problem and having a good enough alternative.
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Are they coding faster? The METR 2025 study shows LLM users feel faster but are actually slower. If LLMs make programmers more productive, then awesome LLM–written software is available everywhere for a low price — so where is it?
Why would any company past the savings on to you? Besides “no one ever got fired for buying IBM”. No company is going to replace SalesForce with a vibe coded alternative they find out about on “Ask HN”. Coding has never been the issue with having a successful project. Look at all of the companies who were crushed by BigTech just throwing a few developers at the same problem and having a good enough alternative.
Competition forces prices lower.
simple example: Claude Cowork was written entirely with claude code
Did they make it faster than without Claude Code?