AI in engineering

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

Developer ramp-up time continues to accelerate with AI

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

Apr 9 • Justin Reock

AI-generated merged code holds steady at ~30%

A preview from our upcoming Q1 AI Impact Report.

Apr 1 • Justin Reock

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

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

Advanced prompting guide for AI-assisted engineering

Structured prompting patterns and use cases for complex, high-impact engineering work.

Feb 4 • Justin Reock

AI tooling benchmarks: PR throughput and usage by tool (Q1 2026)

Updated data from a sample of 64,680 developers across 219 companies.

Jan 21 • Justin Reock

MIT NANDA’s 2025 report on what separates successful AI pilots from those that stall, and how the role of engineers is evolving.

Dec 23, 2025 • Justin Reock

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