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
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.
The PathTO AIIMPACT
Engineering context,
applied everywhere
Write code that sails through reviews by embedding your organization’s tribal knowledge in every AI agent.
Trial, scale, and optimize AI with context showing where tools are needed, underused, or adding risk.
Prove AI’s productivity impact with real data, and make the case for smarter—not smaller—budgets.
Understand your team's execution challenges and enablement needs. Unified across tools, accurate to how you work.
Write code that sails through reviews by embedding your organization’s tribal knowledge in every AI agent.
Why engineering leaders choose Faros
Complete Context
A unified model of how you work, so AI is held to the same standards as your best engineers.
Real Solutions
Get productivity gains, not relocated friction. We bring the people, process, and technology to unblock AI.
Proven Impact
Measurement and guardrails that prove impact, so leadership sees the value, not just the spend.
Enterprise-Grade
Handles thousands of engineers with enterprise-grade security, backed by a team customers love.
Quantifiable Impact
Empowering the world’s
leading software teams
"With Faros, when something changes in our productivity, we can understand why it happened and take action to help teams be more successful."
“Faros has become essential in communicating our value clearly and securing buy-in at the executive level. Today, I articulate our engineering vision and track north star metrics seamlessly.”
"The data in Faros is so good that whether my CEO looks at it or a team member looks at it, it's not an issue. I use the insights to make sure we're using our resources effectively."
"The best part about Faros is having the right data when I need it and where I need it. Instead of compiling spreadsheets, I can focus my time on value-added work."
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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