Dark Factories vs Everyone Else: The Real AI Divide

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• Surfaces a productivity paradox: most developers using AI tools are measurably slower despite faster tooling, while elite teams achieve fully autonomous code generation.
• The divide is not tool access but process maturity — elite teams have restructured workflows around AI output, while mainstream teams add AI to existing habits.
• Frames “dark factory” as a benchmark: autonomous, minimal-human-touch production pipelines that most orgs are not close to achieving.
• Warning: treating AI as an individual productivity add-on rather than a workflow redesign will leave teams on the wrong side of the divide as the gap widens.