Why AI isn't showing up in productivity numbers: legacy systems lack the gears
dreamwieber · x · 2026-10-25
dreamwieber argues it's obvious why AI hasn't shown up dramatically in productivity numbers: society runs on entrenched legacy systems and slow-turning bureaucracies, while AI moves at a geometric pace.
In a follow-up he adds a metaphor: even models from a couple of years ago have incredible capacity to boost productivity, but it's like hooking up a motor that spins insanely fast without the proper connecting gears — the bottleneck is organizational adaptation, not model capability.
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