--- title: "The state of AI in software development: Insights across 400+ organizations" category: "talks" date: "2026-06-30" time: "3:45pm-4:05pm" track: "AI Architects: Tokenmaxxing" room: "Leadership 2" speakers: ["Justin Reock"] sourceLabels: ["Official conference schedule", "Public YouTube metadata"] scheduleTrack: "AI Architects: Tokenmaxxing" scheduleRoom: "Leadership 2" scheduleLabels: ["AI Architects: Tokenmaxxing", "Leadership 2", "session", "confirmed"] --- # The state of AI in software development: Insights across 400+ organizations ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 3:45pm-4:05pm - Track/room: AI Architects: Tokenmaxxing · Leadership 2 - Speaker(s): Justin Reock - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: AI Architects: Tokenmaxxing - Room: Leadership 2 - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description Headlines claim AI is transforming software engineering overnight. Across more than 400 engineering organizations, we see patterns that challenge the hype and reveal what's really working, and what isn't, when AI enters the software development lifecycle. In this talk, Justin Reock, Deputy CTO at DX, will share a data-driven "state of the union" on AI in engineering, grounded in both quantitative data from thousands of developers and on-the-ground observations. You'll learn: The current impact of AI, from benchmarks on the percentage of code authored, team PR throughput, and time savings Where AI adoption is creating real gains in throughput, and whether it introduces tradeoffs for quality and maintainability Insights and trends, including whether junior or senior developers are seeing bigger gains, the impact of structured rollouts, which tools are having the most impact, and the evolving definition of "developer" The session will conclude with a practical framework for measuring AI's impact, helping leaders cut through hype and understand the impact AI is having in their own organizations. ## Media Evidence [Leadership in AI Assisted Engineering – Justin Reock, DX (acq. Atlassian)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmZDupFP3UM) (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions). - Source video: `youtube-PmZDupFP3UM` - Slide deck: [[youtube-PmZDupFP3UM-dense-slides|Dense Slides: Leadership in AI Assisted Engineering – Justin Reock, DX (acq. Atlassian)]] — 6 visible slide image(s); 6 HTML recreation(s). ![[assets/dense-slides/PmZDupFP3UM/slide-001.jpg]] ![[assets/dense-slides/PmZDupFP3UM/slide-002.jpg]] ![[assets/dense-slides/PmZDupFP3UM/slide-003.jpg]] - Additional slide evidence: [[youtube-PmZDupFP3UM-slides|Slides: Leadership in AI Assisted Engineering – Justin Reock, DX (acq. Atlassian)]], [[youtube-PmZDupFP3UM-reconstructed-slides|Reconstructed Slides: Leadership in AI Assisted Engineering – Justin Reock, DX (acq. Atlassian)]] - Slide-derived themes for `youtube-PmZDupFP3UM`: google, users, strategy, senior, executives, productive, measures, says. ## Evidence Graph This evidence graph is generated from currently linked source material: official schedule text, related video pages, cached transcripts, visible slide text, dense/reconstructed slide pages, and AI slide-classification audits. ### Media Signals - `youtube-PmZDupFP3UM` — 7 slide-derived text signals - Slide-derived themes for `youtube-PmZDupFP3UM`: google, users, strategy, senior, executives, productive, measures, says. - Evidence links for `youtube-PmZDupFP3UM`: [[youtube-PmZDupFP3UM]], [[youtube-PmZDupFP3UM-slides]], [[youtube-PmZDupFP3UM-dense-slides]], [[youtube-PmZDupFP3UM-reconstructed-slides]] ### Agent Reading Notes Use these signals to refine the synopsis, topic links, people/company context, and method notes. If a source is a related external video rather than an exact official recording, keep it framed as supporting evidence. ## Transcript Status Related video transcript availability: English auto-captions. Treat this as supporting context, not a recording of this exact scheduled session unless later confirmed. Not fetched yet. ## People - [[justin-reock]] ## Supporting Slides - [[youtube-PmZDupFP3UM-slides]] — extracted from the related public AI Engineer video. ## Slide Evidence - Slide-only cropped deck: [[youtube-PmZDupFP3UM-dense-slides]] (6 viable slide images). - Related slide/OCR pages: - [[youtube-PmZDupFP3UM-dense-slides]] - [[youtube-PmZDupFP3UM-reconstructed-slides]] - [[youtube-PmZDupFP3UM-slides]] - Slide-derived terms: `increase`, `code`, `google`, `engineering`, `genal`, `adoption`, `deepmind`, `down`, `leadership`, `ai-assisted`, `development`, `quality`, `speed`, `seeing`, `impacts`, `strategy`, `playbook`, `senior` ## Synthesis ### Synthesized Breakdown # The state of AI in software development: Insights across 400+ organizations ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 3:45pm-4:05pm - Track/room: AI Architects: Tokenmaxxing · Leadership 2 - Speaker(s): Justin Reock - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: AI Architects: Tokenmaxxing - Room: Leadership 2 - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description Headlines claim AI is transforming software engineering overnight. Across more than 400 engineering organizations, we see patterns that challenge the hype and reveal what's really working, and what isn't, when AI enters the software development lifecycle. In this talk, Justin Reock, Deputy CTO at DX, will share a data-driven "state of the union" on AI in engineering, grounded in both quantitative data from thousands of developers and on-the-ground observations. You'll learn: The current impact of AI, from benchmarks on the percentage of code authored, team PR throughput, and time savings Where AI adoption is creating real gains in throughput, and whether it introduces tradeoffs for quality and maintainability Insights and trends, including whether junior or senior developers are seeing bigger gains, the impact of structured rollouts, which tools are having the most impact, and the evolving definition of "developer" The session will conclude with a practical framework for measuring AI's impact, helping leaders cut through hype and understand the impact AI is having in their own organizations. ### Speaker And Company Context - [[justin-reock|Justin Reock]] — Deputy CTO at [[dx|DX]]. ### Topics Covered - [[agent-security]] - [[coding-agents]] ### Derived Links And Source Material - [[youtube-PmZDupFP3UM]] — related YouTube source page. - [[youtube-PmZDupFP3UM-slides]] — slide evidence. - [[youtube-PmZDupFP3UM-reconstructed-slides]] — slide evidence. - [[youtube-PmZDupFP3UM-dense-slides]] — slide evidence. ### Novel Concepts / Clever Methods - No highlighted novel concept has been detected yet. ### Evidence Boundary This synthesis is based on the official schedule and linked source pages. It should be revisited when exact session recordings or transcript-backed secondary sources are available.