I find it amusing how everyone commenting in this thread tries to sidestep the question you've asked and how at the time of writing this comment there's not a single direct answer.
Ask HN: Where are the AI-driven profits or promotions?
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Re: Ask HN: Where are the AI-driven profits or promotions?
#52If everyone has access to the same AI tools, why would that happen? Everyone would just have their productivity supercharged at the same rate.
> Everyone would just have their productivity supercharged at the same rate. I dunno about you, but in almost every one of these threads the exact same two classes of people show up: the ones championing the insane multiples they get from their AI, and the people who say "it doesn't work for me" whereupon the first class of people say "well, then you're just holding it wrong" So, no, it's not the same rate because th…
That's true, though I wonder if the latter are just a vocal minority.
Re: Ask HN: Where are the AI-driven profits or promotions?
#53The boring answer is 99% of promotions and raises are not tied to productivity or impact.
The "10x" programmer in your org is getting a pat on the back and a 2.1% raise instead of the 2% raise everyone else is getting.
The company I work for is improving their software at a much faster rate. We've solved extremely tricky problems plaguing our reliability and usability using AI. The error rates for key systems are approaching 0%.
Re: Ask HN: Where are the AI-driven profits or promotions?
#54There's plenty of stories like this: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/15/y-combinator-startups-are-fa... The target for a great startup was 7% growth week-on-week, and now it's 10%. It means back then if you were making $1k/week in Jan 1, 2024, you'd expect to make $33k/week a year later. But thanks to AI, the standard is closer to $142k/week. Back then, it was normal to raise $75k or so to build a prototype, now you can…
"The firm has funded more than 5,3000 companies, which it says are worth more than $800 billion in total." Is that 53,000, i.e., a misplaced comma, or is it 5,300, i.e., an extra zero
The numbers does not make sense. "Over a dozen of them are public, and more than 100 are valued at $1 billion or more. More than 15,000 companies apply to get into the accelerator, with about a 1% acceptance rate."