Tracking developer productivity has always been tricky. With the rise of AI-assisted coding, it’s even harder to separate meaningful insights from vanity metrics. Many teams still focus on raw activity metrics like lines of code (LOC) or pull requests (PRs) per engineer per week. But does writing more code really mean being more productive?

Tracking developer productivity has always been tricky. With the rise of AI-assisted coding, it’s even harder to separate meaningful insights from vanity metrics.
Many teams still focus on raw activity metrics like lines of code (LOC) or pull requests (PRs) per engineer per week. But does writing more code really mean being more productive?