Beyond McKinsey's 46% — 5 Workflow Patterns That Push Your Team's AI Coding Productivity Past Industry Average (2026)
McKinsey reports 46% time savings with AI coding tools; METR finds 19% slowdown in the same period. Same tools, opposite results — the difference is workflow. Five concrete patterns to measure your baseline and push past industry average: routine/novel split, verification harness, context engineering, tool-task alignment, prompt versioning.
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