Deep dives into engineering productivity, team culture, and the hidden patterns that separate high-performing teams from the rest.
Ask most CISOs how many AI tools employees use and you get a procurement number. The real count is usually three to four times larger — and mostly invisible.
MCP won as the default agent connectivity standard. Governance did not keep pace — and the standardized attack surface is already showing up in production.
Per-token prices fell while enterprise AI bills roughly tripled. BYOK is how finance gets real visibility into AI spend at the source.
August 2, 2026 brought real enforcement for high-risk AI systems. The obligations land on systems engineering teams build — not just Legal's binder.
AI coding adoption climbed while developer trust fell to 29%. That gap is where engineering leaders are getting burned — and what to measure instead of velocity alone.
DORA still measures the pipe. AI changed what flows through it. Pair the four keys with attribution, trust, and defect-by-origin metrics.