This is the "lines of code per week" metric from the 90s, repackaged. "I'm doing more PRs" is not evidence that AI is working, it's evidence that you are merging more.
Whether thats good depends entirely on what you are merging.
I use AI every day too. But treating throughput of code going to production as a success metric, without any mention of quality, bugs, or maintenance burden is exactly the kind of thinking developers used to push back on when management proposed it.
Turns out we weren't opposed to bad metrics! We were just opposed to being measured!
Given the chance to pick our own, we jumped straight to the same nonsense.
Turns out we weren't opposed to bad metrics! We were just opposed to being measured! Given the chance to pick our own, we jumped straight to the same nonsense.