Engineer Critiques AI Productivity In Workplace

Veteran software engineer Dax Raad on February 14 posted a viral critique arguing that faster AI-driven coding is not the primary bottleneck in product development, citing poor ideas, corporate bureaucracy, and weak worker incentives. He warned AI may encourage coasting, raise LLM costs (roughly $2,000 per engineer monthly), and his post has attracted roughly 793,000 views and over 22,000 Reddit upvotes, signaling broad developer resonance.