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In a few weeks, Laura Tacho is hosting researchers from GitHub, Google, and Microsoft for a year-in-review discussion on AI and developer productivity. Ciera Jaspan, Collin Green, Brian Houck, and Eirini Kalliamvakou will share the most important findings and shifts they observed in 2025, and offer their predictions for what engineering leaders should expect next year. Register to join here: https://lnkd.in/g5qz9JUT

New: filter reports by business hours only. Use this to get a clearer view of metrics like cycle time by excluding nights and weekends from your data.

Exploring the Real Impact of AI on Developer Experience at American Airlines It’s been exciting to demystify how AI is shaping developer workflows. A few early observations from our experiments: - PR cycle time: Significantly faster with AI assistance ✅ - PR size: Larger than before — an area we need to improve! - Review/comment density: Lower overall - also an area that we need to improve! - Review pushback: Higher (quality concerns are real!) With DX, we’re finally able to have meaningful conversations with both executives and developers about what AI is actually changing—and what needs to happen to maximize its value. I’m thrilled about where this journey can take us when we use these tools thoughtfully and responsibly. The potential is incredible!

Last month, DX released Team SLAs. At DX, it’s important to me that we help drive impact, not just more insight. SLAs make metrics actionable by alerting teams about what they need to know, when they need to know it. And because those alerts appear where engineers and managers already work (in Slack or Teams), the data is immediately actionable.

DX data shows newer AI-native IDEs like Claude Code and Cursor are associated with higher PR throughput… but organization size plays a huge role. Windsurf, for example, has taken a strong foothold in the enterprise. So, the lower PR throughput from Windsurf isn’t necessarily due to the tool’s capabilities, but rather who’s using it. More on this from Laura Tacho in the Engineering Enablement newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gKXrSmMF

“The experience, the polish, the ease of use—it was clear this wasn’t just an executive tool. We could hand it to everybody and they’d get value out of it right away.” – Jakub Oleksy, SVP of Engineering at GitHub Read more on why GitHub selected DX to measure and improve developer experience:  https://lnkd.in/gVXK5zPZ

After countless conversations with DevEx leaders asking, "So… how do we actually do this?", Nicole Forsgren and I decided to write the book we wished existed. Frictionless is a practical guide for: - Making the business case for DevEx - Measuring what truly matters—especially with AI changing the landscape - Navigating org politics and executive communication - Driving change that actually sticks It's officially out on Amazon: https://lnkd.in/g87-NUeY

Today's the day! 🎉 After countless conversations with DevEx leaders asking "okay, but HOW do we actually do this?" - Abi Noda and I wrote Frictionless. It's a practical guide for: * Making the business case for DevEx * Measuring what actually matters (especially with AI in the mix) * Navigating org politics and exec communications * Actually implementing change that sticks We also built 100 pages of FREE workbooks - templates, frameworks, exercises your team can use right away. https://lnkd.in/gXXsR6pH bit.ly/frictionless-book

The DX Dashboard was designed to be your home base, a space that adapts to your role and priorities. With the latest update, personalization goes even further: - Customize tiles on preconfigured reports  - Reorder titles to fit your workflow - Build new custom dashboard tabs