Demis Hassabis claims AI-augmented engineers are now producing 500 to 1,000 times the work they were doing just six months ago. He frames this as the leading edge of what's coming, predicting YC builders operating at 1000x will build hit products before fully autonomous agents appear. The productivity jump is driven by smaller, faster distilled models (like Gemini Flash) that hit 90-95% of frontier quality at a fraction of the cost, making tight iteration loops more valuable than peak capability.
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