What 2026 Research Says About Engineering Productivity
94 percent of business leaders consider AI critical to their five year strategy, but 60 percent of engineering leaders say they lack the metrics to manage it. The 2025 and 2026 research converges on a few findings: gains are real but uneven, rework cost is significant, the economic unit has shifted from seats to tokens, and the strongest predictor of realized value is reinvestment of gains rather than adoption rate.