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19 Oct 2025 Lenny's Podcast How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren

“I will say if it is a prescriptive metric, it needs to be used only in the way it was prescribed.”

— Nicole Forsgren

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Nicole Forsgren
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19 Oct 2025
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Lenny's Podcast

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…Interesting. You invented DORA, that was kind of the main framework people used for a long time to measure productivity. And then there's SPACE, there's Core 4, there's probably others. So what I'm hearing here is all these are kind of out of date now, where AI is contributing large portions of code. I will say if it is a prescriptive metric, it needs to be used only in the way it was prescribed. So…

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