Andrew Boyagi
State of DevEx 2025: Navigating the AI Revolution and Developer Experience
#1about 2 minutes
Moving beyond traditional metrics to understand developer sentiment
Traditional productivity metrics like DORA can miss developer burnout, prompting a shift to measuring how it feels to be a developer.
#2about 3 minutes
Redefining productivity as delivering high-quality software fast
True productivity is not about writing more code faster, but about delivering valuable, high-quality software by removing points of friction.
#3about 3 minutes
How generative AI is reshaping the developer workflow
While generative AI has been rapidly adopted for coding, its greatest potential lies in addressing the 84% of a developer's time spent on non-coding tasks.
#4about 5 minutes
Exploring the top non-coding use cases for AI
Developers are using AI to automate toil like removing stale feature flags, writing documentation, generating tests, and searching for information across multiple systems.
#5about 3 minutes
Quantifying the significant time developers save using AI
Survey data reveals that 99% of developers save over four hours a week with AI, with nearly half saving 11 to 20 hours by applying it across their entire workflow.
#6about 2 minutes
How developers are reinvesting their AI-driven time savings
Developers are wisely reinvesting the time saved from AI into high-value activities like improving code quality, shipping new features, and enhancing engineering culture.
#7about 2 minutes
The paradox of AI gains versus organizational inefficiency
Despite significant time saved with AI, developers lose an equivalent amount of time to organizational inefficiencies, resulting in a frustrating net-zero productivity gain.
#8about 2 minutes
A practical framework for improving developer experience
A continuous improvement cycle for DevEx involves speaking directly with developers, using surveys to identify friction, measuring key metrics, and then implementing targeted solutions.
#9about 2 minutes
Bridging the communication gap between leaders and developers
A significant disconnect exists where 63% of developers feel their leaders don't understand their daily challenges, highlighting a critical communication problem.
#10about 3 minutes
Case study on improving PR cycle time with AI
Atlassian reduced PR cycle time by 45% by using an AI agent to provide instant feedback, allowing human reviewers to focus on more complex issues.
#11about 1 minute
Key takeaways on the state of DevEx in 2025
AI provides significant productivity boosts, but these gains are nullified by organizational friction, making it crucial for leaders to understand and address developer challenges.
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