AI Productivity Doesn't Mean What I Think It Meanskept by eddie • sep 03AI boosts the ceiling of human output, shifting effort from structural fixes to fine‑grained craft rather than reducing overall work.AboutTomasz TunguzFiled#ai#productivity#software-engineeringRelatedMost AI Work Can WaitRouting layer design, not model choice, drives cost efficiency by sending 70-80% of AI traffic to cheap local or async models.also on Tomasz Tunguz, #software-engineeringIs AI Doing Less & Less?A six-month evolution from fully agentic AI to a hybrid architecture shows 65% of workflow nodes now run as deterministic code, improving reliability and cost efficiency.also on Tomasz Tunguz
AI Productivity Doesn't Mean What I Think It Means