# How Much Are LLMs Actually Boosting Real-World Programmer Productivity? — LessWrong

<https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tqmQTezvXGFmfSe7f/how-much-are-llms-actually-boosting-real-world-programmer>

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## What Jamie wrote

The punchline here is AI delivering 10-30% productivity improvement, which is nothing to sneeze at. That is a big win. But it is a far cry from what some are selling.

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT313: Weekly Thing 313 / Agentic, Shadows, WireMock](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/313/), Briefly

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