Indulge

Hi! I'm not in CS, but close enough that reddit thinks I'd fit in. Every day I get posts in my feed from this sub about AI, and while the title can be for or against, in the comments it's always the same: "I'm 10x, 100x, 1000x, faster better stronger, banging out in 5 minutes with Claude what would take a month without, writing code is obsolete you dinosaur" etc. Just about everyone here seems to agree that AI has been the biggest productivity boost since IDEs, by an order of magnitude. Now to my dumb question: What exactly do you all work with so fast and why isn't this at all noticeable from the outside? If every AI-powered programmer, which by the sounds of it is pretty much everyone, suddenly got 100x more able and productive, shouldn't this have an obvious impact on the world? Like, software updates should be flying out, feature-packed, stable and bugfree like never before, a new golden age of digital innovation — but I can't really say I'm noticing any difference except more talk. Where does all the mega-productivity go? Do you create products? Games? Apps? Do you sell them to someone? Websites? Embedded systems in automatic cat food dispensers? What do you do all day? Am I just blind and oblivious? Has the productivity gain been counter-balanced by immediate down-sizing? Are you offsetting the gains by just chillin' at work most of the day? Or am I just getting tricked by bots pumping up AI products here?