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DX: Developer Intelligence Platform
Company blog · getdx.com/blog · on HN as geekjockproductivitycareer
DX: Developer Intelligence Platform is the company blog at getdx.com, writing about productivity and career. Since 2022, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “The Engineering Enablement Podcast”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link DX's research reports and blog posts on developer productivity, AI-assisted engineering and measuring developer experience, mostly as data sources or product references.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Designed by leading researchers, DX helps organizations measure developer productivity, improve with data, and navigate the shift to AI-augmented engineering.
Most-linked posts?
- The Engineering Enablement Podcast2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-26
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-03
- DX Is Joining Atlassian2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-18
- Motivating Developers to Care About Documentation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-16
- Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 42 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-10
What Hacker News says?
The latest survey is here apparently: https://getdx.com/report/ai-assisted-engineering-q4-impact-r... . No idea if signing up gives the full survey for free. We get it through our company paying for DX's services
Comment linking /report/ai-assisted-engineering-q4-impact-report/
on “Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?”Submitted Motivating Developers to Care About Documentation as a story · 16 points
HN discussion"Lines of code is a much better proxy than reported productivity." Researchers who specialize in this field largely disagree with this. Here's a round-up: https://getdx.com/blog/measuring-developer-activity/
Comment linking /blog/measuring-developer-activity/
on “Good DevEx increases productivity. Here is the data”Submitted A new framework for measuring developer productivity as a story · 4 points
HN discussion"Are there any plans to figure out objective ways to measure productivity" You can't measure developer productivity objectively, assuming you're referring to metrics like lines of code, number of pull requests, or velocity points which are infamous. There's broad agreement on this both within the research community as well as practitioners at leading tech companies. Here are some examples: https://newsletter.pragmat…
Comment linking /research/conceptual-framework-for-developer-experience/
on “Good DevEx increases productivity. Here is the data”Submitted DX Is Joining Atlassian as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou can't do all this alone; you need allies. So use your communication skills to persuade a suitable sponsor with the power to assign the necessary resources. Google and DX regularly release reports about these things; e.g., https://getdx.com/blog/documentation-culture-engineering/ You could use them to raise awareness in your organization.
Comment linking /blog/documentation-culture-engineering/
on “Docs Deserve More Respect”Submitted DX Is Joining Atlassian as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLet's also not forget the multiple other studies that found significant boosts to productivity using rigorous methods like RCTs. However, because these threads always go the same way whenever I post this, I'll link to a previous thread in hopes of preempting the same comments and advancing the discussion! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559254 Also, DX (whose CTO was giving the presentation) actually collects…
Comment linking /uploads/ai-measurement-framework.pdf
on “CTO Says 93% of Developers Use AI, but Productivity Is Still 10%”Submitted Platform team challenges, realigning on DevEx, and change management as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> Core 4 (and similar) rub me the wrong way – measuring individual developers as the atomic unit IMO is always meaningless And From: https://getdx.com/research/measuring-developer-productivity-... > Diffs per engineer* > > * Not at individual level Are you guys agreeing or disagreeing with each other?
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on “Dev productivity metrics suck. Ops reviews are key for AI-accelerated eng orgs”Submitted Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's a combination of different activity metrics (commits, PRs, comments, etc) with AI thrown in to figure out substance/complexity of the work. I originally thought the summaries were simple metrics without factoring quality. There are products that provide this for github and other tools. E.g. https://getdx.com/
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on “AI Coding at Home Without Going Broke”Submitted Space Framework, PRs per Engineer, AI Research – Brian Houck (Microsoft) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTo the author’s point about there not being enough evidence to support pro-AI claims — Additionally, there are studies and articles coming out showing those people are wrong and AI only makes people barely more efficient. Not the 10x tech CEOs are claiming while slashing thousands of jobs https://getdx.com/blog/ai-productivity-gains-are-10-percent-...
Comment linking /blog/ai-productivity-gains-are-10-percent-not-10x/
on “I Remain a Skeptic”Submitted CTO buy-in, measuring sentiment, and customer focus as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm the host of the Engineering Enablement podcast: https://getdx.com/engineering-enablement-podcast We interview developers and leaders who work on "platform" teams (e.g. devex, devprod, infrastructure) that focus on making developers happier and more productive. If you're interested in this kind of work, or the subject of developer productivity, I think you'd enjoy checking it out. A couple recent episodes include…
Comment linking /engineering-enablement-podcast
on “What are some of the best podcasts for developers?”Submitted How to Get Buy-In for DevEx Initiatives: Strategies from GitHub,Notion,and More as a story · 2 points
HN discussionBut also not directly to developer's experience. Try the SPACE framework [1] from the same people, Nicole Forsgren et al. It is more of a survey than measurable objective metrics, and the problem is with the implementation, like any other survey- build good questions, operating the survey analysis and results etc. There some comercial tools available, for example getdx [2] [1] https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=345…
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on “How do people qualitatively measure their developer experience?”Submitted DX: the world’s first developer experience platform as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Actionable Framework for Understanding and Improving Developer Experience [pdf] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why lines of code are a bad measure of developer productivity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Better Way to Measure Developer Productivity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An inside look at the SPACE framework as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A masterclass on DORA – research program, common pitfalls, and future direction as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Engineering Enablement Podcast as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Motivating Developers to Care About Documentation as a story · 1 points
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