The AI Productivity Gap
There’s no doubt that AI has already improved the productivity of engineering teams, and will only get better in the coming years. However, some leaders think fully-baked features should be banged out as fast as prototypes. Sadly, building production features still seems to take almost as long as it used to.
- ▪There’s no doubt that AI has already improved the productivity of engineering teams, and will only get better in the coming years.
- ▪However, some leaders think fully-baked features should be banged out as fast as prototypes.
- ▪Sadly, building production features still seems to take almost as long as it used to.
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| Original publisher | Bjorg |
| Canonical URL | https://bjorg.bjornroche.com/management/ai-productivity-gap/ |
| Publication time | Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:07:20 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-03T07:20:44.039Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-03T07:20:44.039Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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There’s no doubt that AI has already improved the productivity of engineering teams, and will only get better in the coming years. However, some leaders think fully-baked features should be banged out as fast as prototypes. Sadly, building production features still seems to take almost as long as it used to. Wasn’t AI supposed to turn us all into hyper-productive 10xers? To understand this AI productivity gap, we need to acknowledge how developers actually break down their days. In reality, coding new features is not where most of their time goes. Senior engineers in particular spend a lot of time figuring out what code they need to write, and AI hasn’t yet made that part any easier. Sometimes I actually find AI makes non-coding work go slower.
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