Why Tracking AI Usage Drives Better Results | Justin Reock & DX

The AI Native Dev - from Copilot today to AI Native Software Development tomorrow

With AI adoption surging across orgs, Justin Reock, CTO at DX, joins Simon Maple to break down the difference between meaningful integration and just chasing trends.
They also get into:
• two levers of velocity: quality and maintainability.
• why measuring real AI impact starts with knowing who’s using it and how
• how AI supercharges developer productivity across the SDLC
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1. Trailer (00:00:00)

2. Introduction (00:01:11)

3. Pre-AI and the big wave (00:02:15)

4. IDEs: short-term speed vs. long-term quality (00:05:25)

5. Why measure? (00:08:24)

6. AI Framework (00:13:33)

7. Developer impact and experience (00:18:12)

8. Setup time and impact metrics (00:22:40)

9. Industry benchmarks (00:30:33)

10. Beyond codegen (00:35:05)

11. Dev productivity wins (00:40:00)

12. Best place to start (00:46:34)

13. Outro (00:50:52)