This post appeared first in my Substack: flowlabs.substack.com. Sign-up there. You rolled out AI tools, added a dashboard, and still can’t answer whether any of it made your developers’ lives better or improved outcomes. The gap usually isn’t your tooling. It’s that the things easiest to measure aren’t the things that matter, and more numbers […]
Too Many DevEx Metrics, Too Little Guidance: Introducing the DevEx Metrics Compass
Companies are spending heavily on AI for software development, often $1,000+ per developer per month per the Stanford AI Spend Index, and naturally want to measure the impact of their investment. Is it just more output – commits, PRs, line of codes? Or also better outcomes – increased product quality, organizational effectiveness and Developer Experience (DevEx)? […]


