When anyone can build with a prompt, what counts as productivity? — We're moving our whole company to AI and keeping humans on judgment

Type a prompt, and anyone—even a child—can now write a program.

Until now, the people who wrote code fast, and wrote a lot of it, were called "productive." But if everyone can build at the same speed, speed no longer sets anyone apart. So in this era, what do we mean by "productivity"? And what happens to team development?

No one has the answer yet. So we're looking for it by actually running our company (EarthLink Network) on AI—every part of the business. This article is where we stand right now.

Here's the conclusion first (about a 5-minute read):

The yardstick for productivity changes — not "how fast you build" or "how few bugs," but "how correct your decisions are" and "how many decisions you make"