{"id":7942,"date":"2026-03-17T10:20:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forbes.co.il\/e\/?p=7942"},"modified":"2026-03-17T10:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:20:41","slug":"the-missing-metric-in-the-ai-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forbes.co.il\/e\/the-missing-metric-in-the-ai-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Missing Metric In The AI Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Everyone is talking about AI. And Generative AI adoption, especially, has practically become a corporate mandate &#8211; everywhere you look, it is being deployed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Across industries, executives are urging teams to integrate AI into their workflows. Engineers want access to AI coding assistants, and consumers are constantly being introduced to new AI products whether they want them or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But amid the rush to deploy new tools, many organizations are overlooking a simple question. Is it doing its job and making anything any better?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are helping engineering leadership to govern AI and adopt it,\u201d said Liad Elidan, co-founder and CEO of Milestone. The platform provides engineering leadership with something deceptively simple: an honest account of what AI is actually doing inside their organization. Not what the AI vendors tell them it\u2019s doing \u2014 what\u2019s really happening, measured against business outcomes that matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elidan described it as a situation where the whole system is pushing forward at once: \u201cThe world\u2019s adopting AI. Every person is using AI, either in their personal life or in their professional life.\u201d But the result is that many organizations deploy AI tools before they fully understand what those tools are actually doing. And the metrics provided by those tools do not necessarily answer the questions executives actually care about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is giving rise to an emerging category of technology: systems designed specifically to measure the interaction between humans and AI tools inside enterprise environments. Milestone sits at the center of that category \u2014 sitting above the vendors, correlating usage data with actual engineering outcomes like code quality, review times, and delivery speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: The Missing Metric In The AI Boom - #0058, Liad Elidan\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/0v9y40QVOEAThuX46Kk3vZ\/video?si=k_mKOeg1Rv-g-P16DzJ1qw&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Elidan described this challenge as a shift in management thinking. \u201cNow you add another animal into the play, which is AI itself.\u201d Looking further ahead, he is optimistic about where this leads \u2014 for engineers willing to adapt. The profession isn\u2019t contracting, he argues. It\u2019s mutating into something far more powerful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very controversial,\u201d he said, \u201cbut you can be much more independent now. And that is amazing.\u201d The engineer who learns to work with AI tools effectively, who treats adaptability as a core professional skill rather than an occasional inconvenience, is not being replaced. They are being amplified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five years from now, Elidan predicts the best engineers won\u2019t be defined by what they can write, but by what they can direct. \u201cI expect that engineer to be almost a Superman engineer compared to the engineer of today,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019ll have a hundred or more agents under his belt \u2014 agents that he can run, configure, and push forward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The future of software development, in other words, may be defined by the ability to manage how humans and AI work together and the wisdom to actually measure whether it\u2019s going well.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As companies rush to deploy generative AI, a new category of tools is emerging to answer a simple question: Is it actually improving anything?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":7943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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