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# Productivity gains in Software Development through AI
- URL: https://werd.io/productivity-gains-in-software-development-through-ai/
- Published: 2024-08-27T13:41:59.000Z
- Updated: 2024-08-27T13:41:59.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: AI, Notable links, #Import 2025-06-11 21:47

\[[tante](https://tante.cc/2024/08/27/5312/)\]

Tante responds to Amazon's claim that using its internal AI for coding [saved 4500 person years of work](https://accelerationeconomy.com/cloud-wars/amazon-genai-slashes-260-million-in-costs-saves-4500-years/):

> "Amazon wants to present themselves as AI company and platform. So of course their promises of gains are always advertising for their platform and tools. Advertising might have a tendency to exaggerate. A bit. Maybe. So I heard."

He makes solid points here about maintenance costs given the inevitably lower-quality code, and intangibles like the brain drain effect on the team over time. And, of course, he's right to warn that something that works for a company the size of Amazon will not necessarily (and in fact *probably* won't) make sense for smaller organizations.

As he points out:

> "It’s the whole “we need to run Microservices and Kubernetes because Amazon and Google do similar things” thing again when that’s a categorically different problem pace than what most companies have to deal with."

Right.

[#AI](https://werd.io/tag/AI)

\[[Link](https://tante.cc/2024/08/27/5312/)\]