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World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

State of DevEx 2025: Navigating the AI Revolution and Developer Experience

Andrew Boyagi

Although 99% of developers save hours weekly with AI, organizational inefficiencies completely erase those gains. Learn how fixing structural blockers unlocks true engineering velocity.

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#1 about 3 min

Shifting focus from developer productivity to developer experience

Measuring how developers actually feel reveals blind spots in traditional productivity metrics.

#2 about 3 min

Defining productivity and quality in software engineering

True developer productivity means delivering high-quality value fast by removing points of friction.

#3 about 3 min

Navigating generative artificial intelligence in modern software development

While developers primarily use artificial intelligence to write code, the majority of friction occurs outside of coding.

#4 about 3 min

Automating non-coding tasks with artificial intelligence agents

Engineering teams use artificial intelligence to remove stale feature flags, write documentation, and generate release notes.

#5 about 3 min

Enhancing code coverage and information retrieval with automation

Artificial intelligence agents automatically generate tests and index cross-platform company data to reduce context switching.

#6 about 5 min

Measuring time saved and reinvested using artificial intelligence

Developers report saving massive amounts of time with generative artificial intelligence and reinvesting it into improving code quality.

#7 about 2 min

Balancing time savings with ongoing organizational inefficiencies

Despite the time saved by tools, developers continue to lose significant hours to unnecessary organizational complexity.

#8 about 4 min

Building a continuous cycle to improve developer experience

Leaders must actively listen to developers and continuously measure friction points to align on solving the right problems.

#9 about 3 min

Reducing pull request cycle times with artificial intelligence

Implementing an agent for initial code reviews prevents senior developers from wasting time on basic errors.

#10 about 2 min

Summarizing the current state of developer experience

Improving developer experience ultimately requires understanding human friction points alongside adopting new technological tools.

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1:21 min

Using artificial intelligence to reimagine developer experience

Alexander Trusheim Alexander Trusheim +1 · World Congress 2025

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Shifting developer workloads and realistic AI productivity gains

Chris Heilmann +2 · LIVE

4:08 min

Evaluating AI productivity across the software development funnel

Alejandro Saucedo Alejandro Saucedo · World Congress 2025

5:16 min

Motivations for adopting AI to enhance developer productivity

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Measuring developer productivity, efficiency metrics, and team happiness

Neel Sundaresan Neel Sundaresan +1 · World Congress 2026 Europe

5:29 min

Driving organizational AI adoption through holistic developer joy

Alexander Birke Alexander Birke +3 · World Congress 2025

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