AI is genuinely improving productivity, three structural shifts appear:
1. Coordination compression. Artificial intelligence reduces the friction between analysis, decision making, and execution. Code generation, automated testing, rapid experimentation, and internal agents executing workflows shrink the distance between an idea and its implementation. 2. Decision leverage. Humans move up the stack. Instead of performing every task themselves, they supervise systems that generate and evaluate options at scale. 3. Cost-to-serve decoupling. AI systems handle routine work so efficiently that the marginal cost of serving another customer or processing another transaction begins to fall.