Posts tagged Developer Productivity — AI × software engineering, made practical.
You'll learn how to define an activation event that shows a user actually got value, using AI coding agent adoption as the worked example, and how to test any activation metric with three questions.
A dashboard that looked like a win — 4x more PRs — was actually hiding a queueing problem with a name, an equation, and a fix that has nothing to do with telling people to review faster.
Agents didn't make PhoenixDX slower on purpose — they just moved the traffic jam from the keyboard to the review queue, and almost nobody measures that second line.
Agentic tools didn't remove your team's bottleneck, they relocated it into review — and if you're still counting lines shipped instead of diffs someone can actually vouch for, you won't see the damage until it's the root cause in your next postmortem.