AI writes code 100x faster - why hasn’t productivity?

AI Writes Code 100x Faster. So Why Isn’t My Productivity 100x Higher? Claude Code can produce 20,000 lines of code in five minutes. By raw output alone, a software engineer’s productivity should jump 10x to 100x. But it doesn’t, not even close. The reason is that writing code was the bottleneck we could see. Removing it revealed the ones we couldn’t. The bottleneck now is everything around the…