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Faros AI Blog
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Faros AI Blog is the company blog at faros.ai, writing about ai, productivity and programming. Since 2022, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “AI Engineering the Acceleration Whiplash”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Faros AI's engineering reports, especially a March 2026 study of about 4000 teams over two years, as data on whether AI coding productivity gains reach delivery, quality and business value.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- AI Engineering the Acceleration Whiplash7 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2026-06-08
- /blog/ai-software-engineering2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-01-09
What Hacker News says?
> but no comments about the software quality, which for a lot of SaaS has gone downhill. It’s why they emphasized LoC and number of PRs but hide the number of bug tickets. And here's some numbers (gathered from telemetry over time) showing that: https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acceleration-whiplash-takeaways Here's someone's breakdown (with some things from the full report that aren't in the Faros blog post), showing h…
Comment linking /blog/ai-acceleration-whiplash-takeaways
on “Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs”Submitted AI Engineering the Acceleration Whiplash as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou may be interested in this report from earlier this year: https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acceleration-whiplash-takeaways And a breakdown of it that gives a bit of an alternate explanation of their numbers (and more closely matches what we're seeing IMO): https://unessays.substack.com/p/talk-is-cheap Short version is that what you, I, and other responses to you are seeing is backed up by the numbers: AI code generat…
Comment linking /blog/ai-acceleration-whiplash-takeaways
on “Initial effects of AI technology on employment look positive”Submitted It's Time to Do More with Less as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA few studies over different time frames: [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OzxYK2-qsI [2] https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/state-of-ai-vs-human-code-gen... [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvosMkuNxF8 [4] https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-software-engineering "The technology has improved so rapidly that this study is now close-to-meaningless." You could have said that anytime in the last 3 years, but the data has ne…
Comment linking /blog/ai-software-engineering
on “Why didn't AI "join the workforce" in 2025?”Submitted Ten Takeaways from the AI Engineering Report 2026: The Acceleration Whiplash as a story · 1 points
HN discussion>Understanding what is going on with AI productivity is … frustrating to say the least. Agreed. I think one of the hardest things about it is that productivity != value. You can push all the code you want, but if it's not driving revenue up or cost down, it doesn't matter economically. Here is the best data I've been able to find. An observational study of 4000 teams over 2 years across many different organizations.…
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on “Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration”Submitted Ten Takeaways from the AI Engineering Report 2026: The Acceleration Whiplash as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMarch 2026: https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acceleration-whiplash-takeaways Faros would tell you shops are shipping 16% more PRs with heavy AI use. https://unessays.substack.com/p/talk-is-cheap I think that's wrong because it doesn't adequately account for the quality and rework their data show.
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on “Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration”Submitted Real-world impact of AI adoption. "Acceleration whiplash" as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSorry for the late response! My guess is they didn't publish it because they only measured it at one company, if they had the data across the cohort they would have published. The general result that review/re-wrok can cancel out the productivity gains is supported by other studies AI generated code is 1.7x more buggy vs human generated code: https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/state-of-ai-vs-human-code-gen... Individual…
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on “DHH: AI models are now good enough”Submitted McKinsey is talking about developer productivity and thats a good-thing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionResults like these? https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acceleration-whiplash-takeaways Or these? https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2026/03/16... Or these? https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3955 Yes, "results are in". They're all over the map, about productivity, about stress and churn, about trust, about public sentiment, etc. But sure, if you want to tell people their productivity will be measure…
Comment linking /blog/ai-acceleration-whiplash-takeaways
on “Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live Tokenmaxxing”There is an observational study that was published in March 2026 that followed 4000 teams over 2 years. It shows, in my view, exactly that the productivity gains don't translate into economic value. Here is the report: https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acceleration-whiplash-takeaways And my commentary: https://unessays.substack.com/p/talk-is-cheap
Comment linking /blog/ai-acceleration-whiplash-takeaways
on “AI Is Slowing Down”https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-software-engineering The actual study with the data, minus the "I was right all along" commentary
Comment linking /blog/ai-software-engineering
on “The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower”