# 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)

## 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."

Ben Cochran

VP of Developer Enablement, Autodesk

## Everything you need to 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.

## Problems we solve

### Run engineering faster with AI that knows how you design, implement, test, and ship product

Developer productivity

### Turn engineering bottlenecks into breakthroughs

Unify all organizational knowledge about people, process, and tools to create faster and more efficient development workflows.

### Measure AI’s impact on productivity

Turn AI investments into proven returns and unlock the strategies with the highest velocity returns.

### Reliable and dependable engineers

Produce code that ships without rework with AI that learns from past PRs, tickets, and architectural decisions.

### Predictable Roadmap Delivery

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.

## Get Started

## AI IS ONLY AS GOOD AS ITS CONTEXT.

Give it yours.

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