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Measuring AI Productivity in Software Delivery

Written by Mark Rainford | 2026 - July 3

These are reasonable questions.

 

They are also, increasingly, the wrong ones.

The confident single-number answers they produce are doing more harm than the uncertainty they were meant to resolve.

 

This paper sets out why, drawing on the current research literature and on anonymised findings from our own enterprise engineering work in regulated, large-scale environments.