AI productivity problem has a second billOracle's push behind APEXlang, a structured specification language for its low-code APEX platform, starts from a simple concern. Oracle's answer is to have AI work with structured, declarative specifications rather than continually producing large volumes of raw code. Oracle is using AI partly to reduce the amount of human labor required to operate the business while building tools around the idea that unconstrained AI code generation can create its own maintenance burden. It means the tests accompanying those changes often provided limited evidence that the generated code had actually been verified properly. This is why lines of code generated per week are becoming a poor measure of AI productivity.