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The Pragmatic Engineer

Measuring the impact of AI on software engineering – with Laura Tacho

Jul 23, 2025 · 1h 12m

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Supported by Our Partners •⁠ Statsig ⁠ — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Graphite — The AI developer productivity platform. — There’s no shortage of bold claims about AI and developer productivity, but how do you separate signal from noise? In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Laura Tacho, CTO at DX, to cut through the hype and share how well (or not) AI tools are actually working inside engineering orgs. Laura shares insights from DX’s research across 180+ companies, including surprising findings about where developers save the most time, why devs don’t use AI at all, and what kinds of rollouts lead to meaningful impact. We also…