The capability gap nobody is measuring
Productivity dashboards are rising while underlying human capability quietly declines. Here is what we should track instead.
Productivity metrics and capability are not the same thing.
When a team ships more with AI assistance, dashboards light up green. But output is a lagging, surface measure. Underneath, the relevant question is whether the people involved are becoming more capable — or merely more dependent.
This essay proposes a small set of capability indicators that separate durable skill from momentary throughput, and argues that organizations measuring only output are flying blind on the thing that compounds.
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