2026-01-18 20:38:29

AI has lifted developer productivity across the board—we're seeing improvements in the 2-3x range for most. But here's where it gets interesting: the truly exceptional developers are hitting a different stratosphere entirely. Those already operating at 10x efficiency are now pushing toward 100x capability through AI-assisted workflows.

This isn't just incremental. The gap between average AI-augmented development and peak AI-augmented development is widening dramatically. I'm tracking this shift in real time, and it's reshaping how we think about engineering talent in Web3 and beyond.

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GateUser-e87b21ee

· 8h ago

To be honest, this polarization trend is already very clear in Web3... Those already talented developers are taking off directly with AI, while ordinary people can only achieve 2-3 times improvement at most, the gap is really not a small one.

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NFTBlackHole

· 8h ago

Those people at 100x are probably going to lose their jobs. We at 2-3x are the real middle class, haha.

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SmartContractRebel

· 8h ago

That group of 100x is really a monster, using AI to take it to the next level. Ordinary developers see a 2-3x improvement, but they directly undergo a qualitative change.

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PessimisticOracle