New research: Leading indicators of AI coding agent effectiveness

New research: Leading indicators of AI coding agent effectiveness

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The Token Bill Is an Accounting Problem as Much as a Cost Problem

Molly McQueen, Henry Liu and Charles Franklin

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5 Dimensions for Productive Engineering

Stephen Poletto

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A Newer Model Isn't Always Better: Lessons From Vanta's Engineering Org

Span Team

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The New Craft: Building the Harness

Span Team

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How to Build the Foundations for Agentic Development

Span Team

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Coding Agent Harness Effectiveness

Stephen Poletto

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Treat Your Coding Agents Like a Production System

Span Team

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The Harness is the Product (of Modern DevEx)

Stephen Poletto

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Software Engineering Is Becoming Metaprogramming

Span Team

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The Old Vertical SaaS Moat Is Dead. Where Are the New Moats Now?

Span Team

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What Stays Human When Everyone Can Build?

Span Team

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Where Does Engineering Work Go When AI Writes the Code?

Span Team

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Span Environment Readiness

Introducing Environment Readiness: Improved environments for better agent performance

Span Team

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Span Spotlights

Introducing Spotlights: From isolated wins to shared practice

Span Team

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The Reviewer Paradox: Why Code Review Is Where AI Quality Breaks Down

Span Research Team

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Why PR Size Is the Quality Variable

Span Research Team

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Autonomous Teams Ship Cleaner AI Code: What Separates High-Performing Organizations From the Rest

Span Research Team

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AI Effectiveness Scorecard

The Effectiveness Scorecard: A clearer view of where to focus

Span Team

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Span AI Effectiveness

Introducing Span’s AI Effectiveness suite: A new foundation for better AI outcomes

Span Team

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The Defect Fingerprint: How AI-Generated Code Breaks Differently Than Human Code

Span Research Team

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Theory of Constraints

When Coding Becomes Easy, Systems Matter More Than Ever

Luciano Zeman

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From Strain to Proficiency: How Engineering Orgs Move Past the AI Adoption Valley

Span Team

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Estimated bug density

Measuring quality in AI-driven development: Introducing estimated bug density

Eadon Jacobs, Product

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Span + Linear: Elevating craft and clarity in software development

J Zac Stein

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Span AI Impact Report

The AI Impact Report: Ground truth on how AI is changing engineering

Span Team

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Span Work Graph

The first true view of engineering time: Turning everyday work into decision-grade clarity

J Zac Stein

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We’ve raised $25 million to bring a new level of clarity to engineering teams in the AI era

J Zac Stein and Henry Liu

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Why surveys fall short in measuring the impact of AI coding

Stephen Poletto, Field CTO

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Introducing span-detect-1

Henry Liu

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