Archive - Engineering Enablement

Cognitive debt: The hidden risk in AI-driven software development

How cognitive debt shows up in practice and early mitigation strategies.

Apr 22 • Abi Noda and Margaret Anne Storey

AI Impact Report: Q1 2026

A quarterly snapshot from 400+ companies integrating AI into daily engineering work

Apr 14 • Justin Reock

Assumptions as code: SiriusXM’s approach to platform prioritization

Eleanor Millman and Mina Tawadrous from SiriusXM share how their team built a custom, AI-assisted prioritization system centered on developer speed…

Apr 10 • Justin Reock

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Developer ramp-up time continues to accelerate with AI

Time to 10th PR has more than halved since early 2025.

Apr 9 • Justin Reock

Measuring AI impact, assessing readiness, and new data trends

How AI is reshaping the entire SDLC, shifting bottlenecks and redefining AI readiness, and why developer experience, not tools, determines real impact.

Apr 3 • Abi Noda

38:13

AI-generated merged code holds steady at ~30%

A preview from our upcoming Q1 AI Impact Report.

Apr 1 • Justin Reock

March 2026

How do we interpret AI impact without overclaiming causation?

A better way of framing the impact of AI.

Mar 25 • Abi Noda

Why aren't AI productivity gains higher?

Developers explain why the gains are more modest than expected.

Mar 19 • Abi Noda

AI productivity gains are 10%, not 10x

Preliminary data from our longitudinal AI impact study

Mar 11 • Justin Reock

February 2026

Developer experience at scale – lessons from Dropbox

How they treat developer productivity as a sociotechnical problem and weave AI into the fabric of their engineering culture.

Feb 25 • Abi Noda

Analyst reactions: How AI is reshaping engineering organizations

Analysts at Accenture and RedMonk are seeing an increased focus on quality, security, and responsible AI rollout.

Feb 18 • Justin Reock

Scaling developer experience across 1,000 engineers at Dropbox

Listen now | I talk with Uma Namasivayam of Dropbox about treating developer productivity as a business problem, running developer experience like a…

Feb 6 • Laura Tacho

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