Lines of Code is a Bad Productivity Metric, also for AI

“One Amazon engineer said his team was roughly half the size it had been last year, but it was expected to produce roughly the same amount of code by using A.I.” — New York Times, May 25, 2025 Generative AI is transforming software engineering. Used well, it can boost productivity, uncover solutions faster, and streamline development workflows. I’m all for that. But in the rush to adopt AI, we’re…