AI Hype vs. Reality. Real Stats from Laura Tacho, CTO of DX

About this episode

Bret and Nirmal discuss AI usage and success in teams with Laura Tacho, exploring real data on AI's impact in software development.

Bret and Nirmal are joined by Laura Tacho, CTO at DX and long-time friend of the show, to discuss AI usage and success in teams adopting AI and Agents to generate code and perform tasks. 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! It's a training + community + mentorship program for engineers wanting to learn the latest CI/CD automation and dive into Agentic DevOps. Meetups are happening now, with new course videos dropping every few weeks. Join the Guild and become your team's leader in AI for infrastructure automation https://www.bretfisher.com/theguild 🍾 We finally have some real data on this topic, and Laura Tacho in her role at DX, the developer experience company, has been studying AI successes and failures in the industry and has released a framework to measure AI impact in an orgs software lifecycle. Check out the video podcast version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G_TWLHkj7U ★Show Links★ AI Measurement Framework DX Core 4 Framework Applying the Core 4 Framework Creators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Beth Fisher - Producer Cristi Cotovan - Editor Nirmal Mehta - Host Laura Tacho - Guest (00:00) - Teaser (03:05) - Welcome (04:58) - AI Measurement Framework (07:40)…

People in this episode

Hosts: Bret Fisher, Nirmal Mehta

Guest: Laura Tacho

Topics covered

• AI usage
• AI success
• Developer experience
• AI impact measurement
• Infrastructure automation
• Agentic DevOps

Keywords

• AI
• developer experience
• infrastructure automation
• AI measurement framework
• Agentic DevOps
• software lifecycle
• AI tools

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Organizations: DX, Agentic DevOps Guild, YouTube

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