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What the data says about AI inside engineering teams

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Note / 2026-09-11

The forward deployed engineer role is posted ten times more, and few engineers want it

Job postings for the forward deployed engineer role grew more than tenfold in a year and about one in ten engineers wants the job. The title is not the hard part; the test is.

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Note / 2026-09-11

Why METR changed its developer productivity experiment

METR's February 2026 update lists four reasons its AI productivity experiment stopped working. Each one is what changes inside a team once agent adoption is real.

For CTOs and engineering leads measuring the effect of AI on their teamRead the note