--- title: The past year has seen an explosion in coding... description: AI coding tools have dramatically increased the volume of code being produced, but the author questions whether this constitutes genuine productivity. True... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-past-year-has-seen-an-explosion-in-coding-output-productivity-would-mean-that-more-value-is-b-nnyegxfeg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The past year has seen an explosion in coding *output* Productivity would mean that more value is being created in one way or another. Easiest to measure e.g. in revenue that code/website/app generates My suspicion is that eg most of those new apps don't generate anything | daily.dev og:description: AI coding tools have dramatically increased the volume of code being produced, but the author questions whether this constitutes genuine productivity. True... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-past-year-has-seen-an-explosion-in-coding-output-productivity-would-mean-that-more-value-is-b-nnyegxfeg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/nnYegXfeg.png og:image:alt: The past year has seen an explosion in coding *output* Productivity would mean that more value is being created in one way or another. Easiest to measure e.g. in revenue that code/website/app generates My suspicion is that eg most of those new apps don't generate anything og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- [Gergely Orosz](https://daily.dev/sources/gergelyorosz) [Read on](https://api.daily.dev/r/nnYegXfeg) Mar 18 • From x.com  Gergely Orosz @gergelyorosz The past year has seen an explosion in coding \*output\* Productivity would mean that more value is being created in one way or another. 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