Answered from AI Is Pushing Out Top Performers, Here’s Why · A Life Engineered · 2026-10-22
Steve Huynh compares counting AI tokens to the old lines-of-code metric, which led to bloated software because engineers could, for example, unroll a loop to inflate their count. Both are input metrics, he says, while productivity is about what actually gets produced. His guest adds that rules such as closing 20% of tickets with AI lead people to simply label 20% of their work as AI-assisted.
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