"As an industry, I feel like we've lost our minds. Teams are throwing away everything they've learned over the last many decades about how to effectively measure our engineering experiences. And we're not even just throwing it away. We're making negative progress."

Brian Houck, applied scientist at DX and co-author of the SPACE framework, joins Ankit Jain on the HangarDX podcast to break down what's actually happening when engineering organizations try to measure AI's impact.

Why token usage is the modern equivalent of measuring lines of code, and
What his research across eight dimensions of code quality actually found,
How calendar cleanup beat AI in PR throughput gains by 2x
Why culture—not tech stack—predicts which organizations get the most from AI, about
The case for "agent experience" as the next frontier of developer productivity

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