Harness Report: Engineering Orgs Report Record AI Productivity Gains but Lack Instruments to Verify Them

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A new Harness report reveals that engineering organizations are reporting record productivity gains from AI coding tools while simultaneously acknowledging they no longer have the right metrics to confirm those gains are real. When coding accelerates, PR volume increases, review queues grow, QA saturates, and security validation lags — throughput only increases when the entire delivery system adapts. The finding directly contextualizes Uber's budget crisis: faster code generation without end-to-end measurement creates the illusion of productivity.