AI ENGINEERING REPORT 2026
Build a world-class engineering engine
Accelerate velocity and efficiency
Measure, rank, and fix the bottlenecks slowing down your SDLC.
Turn feedback into
action
Correlate surveys with metrics to validate developer feedback.
Empower team
autonomy
Give teams self-serve metrics and insights to drive local improvements.
Optimize DevEx
ROI
Quantify the impact of platform investments on productivity.
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
How developer productivity and platform engineers use Faros
Unify your engineering data
Every enterprise is different: unique stack, unique business context.
Faros connects across your bespoke CI/CD pipelines, on-prem systems, and custom tooling to create one accurate, unified view of your engineering organization.
Bridge the gap between sentiment and systems
Survey data is subjective. System data lacks empathy. To truly improve developer experience, you must connect the two.
Faros overlays qualitative feedback with quantitative telemetry to pinpoint the real root causes of cognitive load and prove exactly where friction lives.
Isolate and eliminate systemic friction
When efficiency is the goal, superficial measurement won't cut it. There's a better way to maximize output and minimize waste.
Faros holistically analyzes developer inner loops, outer loops, and sentiment—so you can pinpoint what’s slowing developers down and how to fix it.
Benchmark productivity at scale
We understand that "good" looks different across unique stacks, geographies, and workflows. But you still need consistent metrics.
Faros delivers trusted, enterprise-ready benchmarks, normalized across teams, to give you fair, apples-to-apples visibility—built on frameworks like DORA, SPACE, DevEx, Stanford research, and more.
"With Faros, when something changes in our productivity, we can understand why it happened and take action to help teams be more successful."
Everything you need remove friction and elevate team health
Holistic Benchmarking
Launch instantly with industry-standard frameworks to baseline global performance.
Hundreds of metrics
Built-in heatmaps, adoption trackers, and alerts tied to KPIs give you instant clarity.
Self-Serve Analytics
Custom reporting, LLM-powered data exploration, and instant answers in Slack and Teams.
Extensible Data Model
Ingest and map custom attributes from any tool—cloud or on-prem—to reflect your specific reality.
Automated AI Insights
Receive proactive, AI-driven alerts on bottlenecks, anomalies, and risks—delivered right where you work.
Enterprise-Grade Security
We design with data privacy, information security, and legal compliance at the very top of our priorities.
Run engineering faster with AI that knows how you design, implement, test, and ship product
Turn engineering bottlenecks into breakthroughs
Unify all organizational knowledge about people, process, and tools to create faster and more efficient development workflows.
Turn AI investments into proven returns
Measure AI’s impact on productivity, quality, and developer experience to unlock the strategies with the highest velocity returns.
Turn agents into reliable and dependable engineers
Produce code that ships without rework with AI that learns from past PRs, tickets, and architectural decisions.
Turn commitments into shipped products
Land what you planned with a shared, real-time view of every AI-enabled team's progress, plus forecasting that flags emerging risk.
Context for the work you do every day
Engineering context powers the use cases that help your organization transform as fast as AI evolves.
AI IS ONLY AS GOOD AS ITS CONTEXT.
Give it yours.