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Mistaking Code Production for Engineering Progress: AI Productivity Myths Part 1

A few months ago, one of our teams celebrated a milestone in their quarterly review. The productivity dashboard showed that developers were generating, on average, 40% more code per sprint.

Mistaking Code Production for Engineering Progress: AI Productivity Myths Part 1

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A few months ago, one of our teams celebrated a milestone in their quarterly review.

The productivity dashboard showed that developers were generating, on average, 40% more code per sprint.

The challenge was that errors were coming in three different formats depending on which endpoint you hit.

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A few months ago, one of our teams celebrated a milestone in their quarterly review. The productivity dashboard showed that developers were generating, on average, 40% more code per sprint. The challenge was that errors were coming in three different formats depending on which endpoint you hit.

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  • The alerting was blind to a category of failure it had always caught before.

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Three weeks later, I was on a call for a production issue.

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