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Is AI saving time or making work longer?

AI adoption targets are the wrong productivity targets.

ActivTrak’s latest research associates heavy AI use with longer workdays and more app switching. Different samples and measurement limits complicate comparisons with earlier findings; this isn’t evidence that AI causes longer days: https://www.cio.com/article/4243615/does-ai-actually-save-employees-time-data-is-contradictory.html?utm_source=tldrit

Before expanding AI tooling across your engineering team, measure delivery lead time, review burden, rework, and defects against a baseline. If code arrives faster but takes longer to review and fix, you’ve moved the bottleneck, not demonstrated a productivity gain.

Originally covered at cio.com ↗