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Let’s Talk About This “10x Productivity Thanks to AI” Bullshit

5 min readMay 28, 2025

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I’m getting tired of listening to CEOs talk about how generative AI can 10x your productivity. Honestly, everywhere I look these days when it comes to AI, you have someone high in a corporate doing retarded maths to come to the conclusion that because we now have programs that can spit out lots of written text, we should be able to do 10x the amount of work we were doing a year ago.

You Must Have Been Crap Before For This To Work

Even doing some simple maths you quickly see how ludicrous this claim is. If you worked 40 hours a week a year ago (assuming you were actually working all this time — which we know isn’t true) then nowadays expectations are you can produce 400 hours of work in the same period.

Seriously?!?!

400 hours of work in a week, lets just think about that a second. That’s two and a half months of work. That’s a lot. How the hell do these people think we were working before for AI to make such an impact? If this is true then you must have been really bad at your job before all this AI stuff came along.

Let’s Speak About Coding

Apparently these days in the world of AI, coding is bread and butter for these AI models. You should be using AI all day…

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Adam Drake
Adam Drake

Written by Adam Drake

I’m a Frontend Engineer writing about design, performance, and the craft of building great web experiences. Think deeply, build simply.