SMRTR ProgrammingAug 4, 2026Daily.dev

AI-Assisted Engineering: Measure Outcomes, Not Activity

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Measuring AI-assisted engineering by token usage or accepted completions tells you activity happened, not whether it helped. Platform teams should instead track outcomes by workflow — Terraform upgrades, test generation, PR reviews — connecting token costs to accepted results, review burden, and guardrail failures. Define success per workflow before measuring agents, and build dashboards that drive real platform improvements.

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