# Contested concept: productivity

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- **Contestedness**: criterion
- **Diagnosis**: The disagreement over whether AI increases 'productivity' masks a deeper conflict between measuring output volume/speed (short-term) versus measuring human capability and sustainable system health (long-term).
- **Canonical**: `/concept/productivity` (data: `/concept/productivity.json`)

## Senses in use
- **Short-term output efficiency, speed of task completion, and immediate reduction of manual labor.** — used in 5 claim(s)
- **Long-term generative capacity, innate skill-based performance, and the sustainable effectiveness of an engineering team.** — used in 4 claim(s)

## Claims using this term
- [Rather than significantly increasing innate productivity, the use of AI tools primarily results in a heavy reliance on those tools to perfo…](/claim/claim_2632c8830494.md) _(sense: Long-term generative capacity, innate skill-based performance, and the sustainable effectiveness of an engineering team.)_
- [The use of AI tools does not necessarily transform software engineers into "10x developers" (those who are an order of magnitude more produ…](/claim/claim_2f7c8ffc371a.md) _(sense: Long-term generative capacity, innate skill-based performance, and the sustainable effectiveness of an engineering team.)_
- [Large Language Models (LLMs) function as effective productivity tools in software development.](/claim/claim_4f4d966f1698.md) _(sense: Short-term output efficiency, speed of task completion, and immediate reduction of manual labor.)_
- [Large Language Models (LLMs) assist software engineers in solving technical problems and completing projects at a faster pace.](/claim/claim_6ef249f2b8df.md) _(sense: Short-term output efficiency, speed of task completion, and immediate reduction of manual labor.)_
- [The emergence of AI coding assistants is widely characterized by industry professionals as the start of a new era of productivity.](/claim/claim_74f9ad62a84d.md) _(sense: Short-term output efficiency, speed of task completion, and immediate reduction of manual labor.)_
- [Prioritizing immediate AI-driven productivity over human skill development fails to invest in the long-term sustainability and effectivenes…](/claim/claim_891094d17ece.md) _(sense: Long-term generative capacity, innate skill-based performance, and the sustainable effectiveness of an engineering team.)_
- [The technical capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software tasks allow developers to complete work at a faster pace.](/claim/claim_cb71df310100.md) _(sense: Short-term output efficiency, speed of task completion, and immediate reduction of manual labor.)_
- [If the software engineering industry continues to prioritize short-term AI productivity gains over the development of skilled engineers, th…](/claim/claim_f3010a124067.md) _(sense: Long-term generative capacity, innate skill-based performance, and the sustainable effectiveness of an engineering team.)_
- [Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools have the capacity to provide an immediate increase in productivity for knowledge workers.](/claim/claim_f6be63b3dd19.md) _(sense: Short-term output efficiency, speed of task completion, and immediate reduction of manual labor.)_