Are we more productive?

Saying that a team is ten times more productive because it uses artificial intelligence does not tell me much.

Ten times more what?

More lines of code?

More documents?

More tasks marked complete?

All of that can increase without improving the result.

I have learned to distrust any productivity promise without a baseline.

Before adopting a tool, I would measure something closer to the real work:

How long it takes for a need to become an accepted result.

How many times it comes back for corrections.

How many defects appear afterward.

And how much human time the review requires.

Then I would measure exactly the same things again.

If delivery is faster but rework has increased, we did not gain productivity.

We only moved the problem forward.

Speed is felt.

Productivity is compared.