AI Hype vs. Reality. Real Stats from Laura Tacho, CTO of DX
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Laura Tacho, CTO at DX and long-time friend of the show, to discuss AI usage and success in teams adopting AI and Agents to generate code and perform tasks.
We finally have some real data on this topic, and Laura Tacho in her role at DX, the developer experience company, has been studying AI successes and failures in the industry and has released a framework to measure AI impact in an orgs software lifecycle.
Check out the video podcast version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G_TWLHkj7U
★Show Links★
AI Measurement Framework
DX Core 4 Framework
Applying the Core 4 Framework
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We finally have some real data on this topic, and Laura Tacho in her role at DX, the developer experience company, has been studying AI successes and failures in the industry and has released a framework to measure AI impact in an orgs software lifecycle.
Check out the video podcast version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G_TWLHkj7U
★Show Links★
AI Measurement Framework
DX Core 4 Framework
Applying the Core 4 Framework
- (00:00) - Teaser
- (03:05) - Welcome
- (04:58) - AI Measurement Framework
- (07:40) - Distilling Fact from Fiction with AI
- (25:22) - Skepticism and Adoption of AI Tools
- (28:00) - Measuring AI Impact on Developer Work
- (49:10) - Assisted vs Agentic
- (56:02) - More Gains from Training Humans on AI
- (01:04:39) - Measuring AI's Impact
- (01:10:18) - Context Switching
- (01:13:43) - Navigating AI Hype and Reality
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Creators and Guests
Host
Bret Fisher
Cloud native DevOps Dude. Course creator, YouTuber, Podcaster. Docker Captain and CNCF Ambassador. People person who spends too much time in front of a computer.
Producer
Beth Fisher
Producer of the DevOps and Docker Talk and Agentic DevOps podcasts. Assistant producer on Bret Fisher Live show on YouTube. Business and proposal writer by trade.
Editor
Cristi Cotovan
Video editor and educational content producer. Descript, Camtasia and Riverside coach.
Guest
Laura Tacho
Laura Tacho is CTO at DX, a developer intelligence platform, co-author of the Core 4 developer productivity metrics framework, and an executive coach. She's an experienced technology leader and engineering leadership coach with a strong background in developer tools and distributed systems.