Thoughtworks' Birgitta Böckeler argues that AI's surge in code production—Meta reported a 106% increase in significant lines of code per human-landed diff in a year, and DX data shows median pull requ…
A new paper by the creators of the SPACE framework, published in ACM Queue, argues that most AI coding metrics are misleading, citing a 2025 Microsoft study of over 450 engineers showing they spend on…
New research from Microsoft and academia, published in ACM Queue, finds that AI coding tools' impact is limited because developers spend only 14% of their time writing code, and gains vary widely by t…
Developer-experience metrics built by DX to evaluate developer tools have revealed that Daylight Saving Time shifts engineering behavior: across three years of data, active coding time in Seattle incr…
AI coding agents are forcing engineering leaders to rethink how they measure effectiveness, according to Brian Houck, Distinguished Scientist at DX and co-author of the SPACE framework. In a research …
DX's Q2 2026 report on AI impact across 500+ engineering teams finds that over 50% of code is now AI-generated, up from 34% in Q1 2026, but median pull request sizes have nearly doubled and the Develo…
AI-authored code has nearly doubled to 51.9% across over 400 organizations in Q2 2026, but median pull request size has also nearly doubled from 44 to 72 lines, raising concerns about code quality and…