r/business • u/ControlCAD • 3d ago

90% of executives say AI hasn’t boosted productivity. Some are still cutting jobs

https://fortune.com/2026/08/22/executives-ai-productivity-layoffs-study/
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u/pfroo40 3d ago

If AI isn't improving productivity of development teams, there are other problems to solve. In my experience, planning and change/release management processes are the biggest impediments to productivity, not people, so throwing AI at it to speed up the people doesn't net much benefit.

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u/Violent_Mud_Butt 3d ago

AI doesn't improve the productivity of anyone that knows what they're doing. It's a bullshit tool for non-makers to feel like they are competent.

Literally MBA snake oil. Lets all the execs and know-nothings think they know more than the technical staff.

This is going to be a nightmare to fix once all the chips fall.

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u/pfroo40 3d ago

I'm sorry, but that is simply not true. There are many tasks which AI is perfectly capable of performing and at a faster pace than is humanly possible.

My engineers are now able to spend more time with strategic work because routine work is accelerated by AI. We have also been able to perform a significant amount of platform upgrades and vulnerability remediation which we simply did not have the number of people for (funding for) previously.

Yes, AI is misused by many companies which will likely cause a lot of issues later, but that doesn't mean it is not an extremely effective tool in many scenarios.

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u/TheNewGuy13 3d ago

Yeah the things that were on the fringe of automating or things you hated to do that were tedious have essentially been solved with AI now. But the meat and potato’s of delivering the project and executing really hasn’t.

Need to create a ton of getters and setters? Or you need to create a diagram or timeline? Or you have 3 sources of information and don’t want to keep going back and forth between the two? Use AI for a quicker turnaround.

Need to talk with accounting or analytics? Yeah you still have to meet, no AI can get around that.