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Essays and research notes on measuring how teams really ship, with humans and AI agents on the same ruler.

7 min read

Two Ways to Measure AI Adoption, Both Broken

Peer stigma and token surveillance both break AI adoption numbers. What a trustworthy, team-level way to measure AI at work looks like.

  • measurement
  • ai-adoption
  • trust
6 min read

Measure the Team, Not the Model

Coding agents excel when a human steers them. Discover why measuring the human plus agent pair, not the model, is how teams build trust in AI.

  • measurement
  • agents
  • engineering-leadership
8 min read

Fast to Generate, Slow to Trust: The 1:24 Ratio

One AI rewrite took 7 hours to generate and a week to verify. What the 1:24 ratio reveals about trust and where engineering teams should invest.

  • trust
  • measurement
  • engineering-leadership
8 min read

Code Review Is Not Dead. It Is Becoming Governance.

Why review layers survive AI speed. What data from 10,000 developers and the 75% evolvability finding reveal about code review in the age of AI agents.

  • code-review
  • trust
  • engineering-leadership
8 min read

The Trust Gap Is the Governance Gap

84% of developers use AI coding tools. Only 33% trust the output. The trust gap now has a measurable number, and measuring it is how teams close it.

  • trust
  • measurement
  • code-review
9 min read

The AI Adoption Spectrum and the 6x Gap

OpenAI data from 9,000 workers shows a 6x productivity gap. It is a spectrum to climb, not a binary to flip. Here is what that means for your team.

  • ai-adoption
  • measurement
  • engineering-leadership
10 min read

The Benchmark Paradox in AI Code Review

Vendor benchmarks report 60% F1. Academic tests show 19%. What the 3x gap means for teams measuring AI code review effectiveness.

  • code-review
  • measurement
10 min read

Measuring AI in Software Development

What a randomized trial and data from 600+ organizations reveal about measuring the real impact of AI on software teams.

  • measurement
  • trust
  • engineering-leadership

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