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AI productivity gains are 10%, not 10x
Preliminary data from our longitudinal AI impact study.
Justin Reock
Deputy CTO
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Introducing custom benchmarks in DX
You can now compare yourself directly against a set of specific peer companies, instead of a broad-based segment.
Kali Watkins
Product Marketing
How do we interpret AI impact without overclaiming causation?
A better way of framing the impact of AI.
Abi Noda
CEO
New in DX: Cohort analysis
A new report that lets you compare engineering metrics side-by-side across developer cohorts.
Kali Watkins
Product Marketing
Why aren't AI productivity gains higher?
Developers explain why the gains are more modest than expected.
Abi Noda
CEO
An update on our commitment to data neutrality
Six months after DX’s acquisition announcement, here's what we’ve released as part of our commitment to data neutrality.
Ivan Diaz
Customer Engineering
How DX accelerates CTO onboarding
DX accelerates CTO onboarding by surfacing critical engineering signals faster so leaders can act with confidence.
Greyson Junggren
Co-founder, CRO
New Snapshot languages, deeper metrics, and broader integrations across your engineering stack
February DX updates bring multi-language Snapshot surveys, Claude Code metrics for Enterprise, and expanded connector and reporting improvements across your engineering toolchain.
Kali Watkins
Product Marketing
Developer experience at scale – lessons from Dropbox
How Dropbox treats developer productivity as a sociotechnical problem and weaves AI into the fabric of their engineering culture.
Abi Noda
CEO
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.
Justin Reock
Deputy CTO
Advanced prompting guide for AI-assisted engineering
Structured prompting patterns for using AI in more complex, higher-risk environments.
Justin Reock
Deputy CTO
AI tooling benchmarks: PR throughput and usage by tool (Q1 2026)
Updated data from a sample of 64,680 developers across 219 companies.
Justin Reock
Deputy CTO
Customer spotlight: DroneDeploy’s AI impact analysis using DX data
By looking at throughput by AI adoption cohorts, DroneDeploy uncovered a "J-curve" of AI impact: a brief dip followed by a powerful, compounding 5% monthly surge in productivity.
Kali Watkins
Product Marketing
DevProd headcount benchmarks, Q1 2026
Research across multiple industry verticals and engineering team sizes.
Justin Reock
Deputy CTO
Customer spotlight: How a Fortune 500 tech company uses PlatformX and Studies
How a DevProd leader from a big tech company uses DX's experience sampling and targeted surveys to build an always-on pipeline of developer feedback.
Kali Watkins
Product Marketing
The AI Divide
MIT NANDA’s 2025 report on what separates successful AI pilots from those that stall, and how the role of engineers is evolving.
Justin Reock
Deputy CTO
AI and productivity: Year-in-review with Microsoft, Google, and GitHub researchers
What 2025’s AI research told us about developer productivity and identity, and why enablement matters more than tool choice.
Laura Tacho
CTO
Takeaways: Running data-driven evaluations of AI engineering tools
How to compare AI engineering tools using cohorts, baselines, and meaningful metrics
Autumn Faust
Community Insights
Using AI to accelerate hiring and productivity at Zapier
Lessons from Zapier’s experience building hundreds of internal AI agents to reduce engineering friction.
Justin Reock
Deputy CTO
Workflow upgrades that help teams capture clearer signals and follow through faster
November DX updates introduce a redesigned Snapshot triage flow with comments in DevSat, plus conditional and scheduled studies across Targeted Studies and Experience Sampling for smoother, more continuous developer experience measurement.
Leo Epstein
Product Marketing