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Pull Request Velocity as a Proxy for AI Usage for Software Development

While AI have usage has been growing steadily for the last several years, the LLM models noticeably improved around the end of 2025. Specifically, they become more viable for software development. We are seeing the results. The feature and product delivery has picked up. One way to visualize this is by looking at the number of pull requests for your organization / software development teams. This chart shows the number of Github pull requests created by a team. Can you spot when AI usage increased?

Accelerate Your OpenTelemetry Migrations With Honeycomb's Agent Skills

Since releasing our hosted MCP server last year, we've been thrilled to see customers not just adopt it but build Honeycomb deeply into their agentic development and observability workflows. Users have embraced it, leveraging Honeycomb to stay in conversation with their code and understand how it runs in production.

Mastering AI Prompts: How to Get the Best Out of SQL Prompt AI | The Tony and Tonie show Ep41

How to get the most value from SQL Prompt AI in day-to-day work, whether you're writing new queries or improving existing code. A little prompt-writing knowledge goes a long way with SQL Prompt AI. Tony and Tonie discuss how to build reusable prompts that give the tool the context it needs to return useful results first time.

AI Coding Agents Break What Works

Your AI coding agent just made every test pass. Ship it, right? Not so fast. A growing class of AI-generated bugs doesn’t come from writing bad code. It comes from the AI changing working code to accommodate its own mistakes. This isn’t a theoretical risk. It’s happening now, in production codebases, and it’s harder to catch than any bug the AI might introduce from scratch.

The SaaS Paradox: Why Companies Must Spend More On AI To Survive

At SaaS Metrics Palooza 2025, CloudZero CEO Phil Pergola delivered a keynote on the software industry’s most pressing question: can SaaS survive the AI revolution, or will AI rewrite the SaaS playbook outright? Phil’s answer wasn’t doom and gloom, but he didn’t sugarcoat the challenges. “Churn rates are up,” he told moderator Ray Rike of Benchmarkit on Oct. 9, 2025. “The payback from a customer acquisition cost perspective is taking longer.

Claude Livecaster Is Now Open Source, Plus a Two-Voice Broadcast Mode | CircleCI Loop Lab

Claude Livecaster is now public on CircleCI Research. In this update, Ryan Hamilton walks through the newly open-sourced repo, seven built-in simulation scenarios, and a new two-voice broadcast format featuring an anchor and a field correspondent narrating the action together. The demo scenario: Pipeline Wars, six CI pipelines racing across three providers, with Claude providing live color commentary on every Docker build failure, OOM kill, and production rollout.

We Made Claude Narrate an AI Model Race Like a Sports Commentator | Loop Lab

What if you didn't have to stare at logs while your AI agent worked? In this Loop Lab experiment, Ryan Hamilton built Claude Livecaster, a tool that gives Claude a live voice to narrate long-running agentic processes like a sports commentator. The demo: six AI models (GPT, Gemini, and Claude variants) race through a CI/CD benchmark, and Claude calls the whole thing play-by-play. Rate limit hits, comeback stories, photo finishes, all of it, out loud.