Three Anchors for Efficiency Comparison: Comparability, Separability, Honesty
After AI enters software engineering, efficiency comparisons often become apples-to-oranges. This article proposes three anchors—comparability (fixed backlog / team / window), separability (freeze the complexity baseline), and honesty (expectation, not fake measured ROI)—plus reading rules for throughput, cycle time (speed framing), and paired aggregation, with common anti-patterns.