LogicArsenal

Not my definition, the quote is from Brooks - “Productivity is stated in terms of debugged words per man-year.” He also writes about the limitations of this definition. But I can confirm, debugged words per man year has gone up more than 10x for many engineers.

"Brooks Law" has not been broken but but we have found a silver bullet. Brooks said in 1986 "there is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order of magnitude [tenfold] improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity."

Claude Code and somewhere around Opus 4.5 I believe my personal productivity improved by at least 1 order of magnitude for the first time in my 25 year career.

Revenue is up. Looks like they took on a lot of debt. What did they spend it on?

It's like riding a bike. You need to start in a low gear and get some momentum - even if you are going in circles. Starting from zero in the highest gear is difficult and hard to ballance. Once you have some speed, everything gets easier.

This will only encourage more technical jobs to move offshore. We already lost most of our manufacturing capacity to offshore factories. Policies like this will encourage more IT, engineering and research jobs to permanently move to lower cost countries. Why pay 100k to bring the best talent to the US when you can just move the whole team offshore?