https://www.secdev.uk/blog/tags/developer-experience/ Recent content in Developer-Experience on guy@secdev.uk Hugo en-gb Guy Dixon | guy@secdev.uk Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.secdev.uk/blog/leadership/4.2-rethinking-developer-productivity/ Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.secdev.uk/blog/leadership/4.2-rethinking-developer-productivity/ <p>Lines of code per day was always a terrible productivity metric. With AI coding assistants, it&rsquo;s become an absurd one. An engineer with Copilot or a similar tool can generate code at a pace that would have been unimaginable five years ago. If you&rsquo;re measuring productivity by volume, every engineer just got a 3x raise. If you&rsquo;re measuring it by value delivered, the picture is more complicated.</p> <p>The more I&rsquo;ve explored how AI assistants change engineering workflows, the more I&rsquo;ve realised that the productivity conversation needs a fundamental reset. We&rsquo;re not just doing the same work faster, we&rsquo;re changing what the work is.</p>