AI's Impact on Software Devs Productivity & Downsides

Sep 17, 2025

AI is boosting flow, job satisfaction, and productivity for devs.
But here’s the twist: it’s not actually giving us more time to do valuable work.

In his GitKon talk, Nathen Harvey digs into the real impacts of AI adoption in technical teams.

Yes, AI reduces toil and improves satisfaction. But it also shifts how we spend our time and sometimes that means less “valuable work” gets done.

So the question becomes: how can we use AI not just to work faster, but to work better?

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