The Hook: most "AI productivity" advice misses the real leverage points
The biggest productivity gains from AI aren't from writing more code faster—they're from eliminating entire categories of work.
After a year of daily AI-assisted development, I've noticed something counterintuitive. The developers who benefit most aren't the ones writing 10x more code. They're the ones who systematically remove friction from the parts of work that used to require human context-switching.
The pattern is consistent: small workflow changes compound. Large code generation sprees don't.
Here's what actually moved the needle.
