# The AI Engineering Report 2026

The acceleration whiplash

[Read the latest research](https://www.faros.ai/research/ai-acceleration-whiplash)

## How We Help

### 26% faster PRs within six weeks

Faros paints a holistic picture of engineering productivity, while also providing detailed dashboards by team, product, repo, app, and service. At each level, personalized insights help uncover hidden issues and improvement opportunities.

### Understand SDLC bottlenecks

See what people are working on, where they're slowing down, and why it's happening.

### Speed up cycle times and improve flow

Leverage automations to reduce toil and create reminders to keep work flowing within SLAs.

### Improve planning and delivery

Use insights into unplanned work, collaboration, and dependencies to inform planning and allocations.

## AI Engineering Report 2026

### Acceleration Whiplash

The definitive data on AI's engineering impact. What's working, what's breaking, and what leaders need to do next.

- Engineering throughput is up
- Bugs, incidents, and rework are rising faster
- Two years of data from 22,000 developers across 4,000 teams

[Get the report](https://www.faros.ai/research/ai-acceleration-whiplash)

### "Before Faros, we had 25 dashboards in Jira and 25 dashboards in Salesforce. With Faros, we have it all integrated into one place, sliced and diced the way I wanted to see it."

Vineeta Puranik  
Chief Technology Officer,  
SmartBear

[View case study](https://www.faros.ai/blog/smartbear-software-engineering-scales-to-support-rapid-growth-by-measuring-outcomes-with-faros)

## Our Solution

### Context to improve focus, flow, and team performance

### Deliver faster and smarter

Baseline, unblock, and help teams improve developer productivity.

- Get visibility in minutes with prebuilt dashboards and out-of-the-box connectors to Jira, GitHub, and 100+ tools.
- Benchmark PR cycle time and PR merge rate against industry standards or custom thresholds.
- Roll up and drill down based on your real org chart.

### Remove bottlenecks and improve processes

Turn metrics and insights into actions and results.

- Break down cycle times by SDLC stage to identify the bottlenecks causing friction.
- Let our AI models identify the biggest impediments to team performance.
- Get notified of delivery risks before they happen.

### Create a culture of self-improvement

Customize your retro dashboards to set goals and monitor progress.

- See what the team worked on and understand the effort on the most complex tasks.
- Track the deployment status of code changes and definitively determine what’s been shipped to production.
- Assess task and PR hygiene and identify areas for cleanup and better process.

### Improve agility and predictability

Create a shared understanding of Agile health with Technical Program Managers (TPMs) and coaches.

- Keep delivery on track by tracking say/do ratios, unplanned work, and the progress of open epics.
- Implement thresholds, automations, and alerts to keep work flowing and WIP under control.
- Correlate developer survey results with activity and process data for a better understanding.

## Context Changes Everything

Give your team theirs.

See the platform in action.

[Request a demo](https://www.faros.ai/contact-us)

## Explore More Use Cases

### Context for the work you do every day

Engineering context powers the use cases that help your organization transform as fast as AI evolves.

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- [Developer Experience](https://www.faros.ai/developer-experience)
- [DORA Metrics](https://www.faros.ai/dora-metrics)
- [Productivity Improvement](https://www.faros.ai/engineering-productivity)
- [Investment Strategy](https://www.faros.ai/investment-strategy)
- [Initiative Acceleration](https://www.faros.ai/initiative-tracking)
- [Microsoft Azure ROI](https://www.faros.ai/microsoft)
- [Software Cost Capitalization](https://www.faros.ai/software-capitalization)