Beyond Lines of Code: Developers Explain How AI Is Changing Productivity Measurement

The rise of AI coding assistants such as GitHub, Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, and Windsurf, along with agentic development workflows, is forcing engineering teams to rethink how they measure developer productivity. Traditional metrics such as lines of code, pull request volume, and commit counts were already imperfect. Now, with AI generating significant portions of code, those measurements often reveal less about actual impact than they once did. To better understand what should replace them...