Well, in retrospect I don’t like this framing all that much either, but I think I came to this conclusion due to assuming
replynot caring about the output ~ more output
… which may or may not be useful in the long term, but definitely does help a shorter-term “productivity” measure.
On the other hand though, there’s a pretty damning example against my case here: Say a manager of individual contributors – which is what the situation of an individual with sufficiently smart models and tooling may almost boil down to – didn’t directly care about the output anymore. We’d most likely call that being unhinged/unproductive, too…
It was late at night and I primarily wanted to link the somewhat relevant article, maybe I should have left everyone to reach their own conclusions instead of adding some poorly-worded unfinished thoughts. :x