My personal experience with this net zero productivity was using Power Automate and trying to finish off a sequence of actions by asking Copilot due to using new things I was unfamiliar with. The machine would then cycle around the drain, tossing just about anything to the wall to no avail.
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf