27% More Productive or Just Working Weekends? The Real Impact of AI on Dev Teams with Lauren Peate

Lauren Peate and her team at Multitudes spent 15 months researching how AI is actually impacting engineering teams, following 500+ developers, surveying hundreds of leaders, and conducting in-depth interviews.

What they found challenges the hype: engineers merged 27% more PRs after AI rollouts, but also did 20% more out-of-hours work. The biggest predictor of success wasn't the tool , but it was leadership.

In this episode, we dig into what separates successful AI rollouts from struggling ones, why peer-to-peer learning matters more than mandates, and what engineering leaders should actually be measuring.

Get access to Lauren's research here: https://www.multitudes.com/research

This episode is sponsored by Wires Uncrossed.