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Jason Gorman
Jason Gorman
@jasongorman@mastodon.cloud  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

In this age of "AI", that old dragon of measuring developer productivity by output (lines of code, commits, tickets etc) has reared its head again.

The idea in particular that "coding == productivity" still has a strong grip on our industry, and I see many takes from managers who believe that coding needs to be maximised.

But what if coding is really when we're *least* productive?

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/coding-is-when-were-least-productive/

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Coding Is When We’re Least Productive

One old dragon that’s reared its head again in this “age of AI” is the very wrongheaded notion that productivity == code. Managers aim to maximise the amount of code their dev tea…
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