Acceleration Drift: Why your people are faster and your company isn't
Ask anyone on your team how AI is going and you will hear some version of the same sentence: “What used to take me a week now takes an hour.” It is the kind of thing that makes a leader feel the bet is paying off. The work really is faster, and the proof shows up every month on the token bill. People are not imagining the speed. A recent METR study of experienced developers found they believed AI had made them about twenty percent faster. Anecdotally, I see people moving much faster.