Productivity isn't about going faster

diegocg

This is way vague to not be AI slop

gkcalat

Curious how companies measure developers productivity in the era of vide engineering... Token usage? Lines of code? Features shipped? Bug fixed? Code health? Maybe we should use amount of code read or PRs reviewed? Or another metric that would correlate with the amount of person's accountability?

feverzsj

But KPI is.

localhoster

Companies will tell you that it allows them to examine many directions faster, and in a sense they are right. Not doing something is much faster than doing it fast. Sit on your ideas, think them trough, dismiss early, or choose to move to implementations.

riknos314

Any claim about "productivity is due to X" that doesn't define a timescale is either flawed or misleading. In fact all measures of anything need to be done across some meaningfully defined time scale to have any relevance.

l5870uoo9y

> It's about spending your time where it truly matters. I think the author conflates productivity with meaningfulness.

Swizec

Productivity is easy to define and measure when you have a an outcome you want to achieve. A goal if you will. Productivity is impossible to define when you don’t know where you’re going. A lot of companies and teams are finding out real fast they have zero clue where the fuck they’re trying to go or what they want to achieve. Just a bunch of people running in random directions before the funding runs out. Pick a direction. Then go fast.