we had hundreds of discussions with engineering leaders over the past few months, and everyone's trying to understand where they are in the AI journey.
we collected all this data into a benchmark and built a free grader to let you know where you stand.
you answer on a 1–5 scale (e.g., autonomy runs from "suggestions only" to "agents own multi-hour workflows across code, infra, and external systems") - takes about 5 minutes.
"software factory" seems like the wrong analogy. Factories make identical products over and over. Software is different every time (otherwise you just copy and paste). "Software machine shop" would be closer.
that's a very interesting take! i think the market is leaning towards software factory now to describe autonomous agents in R&D and that might very well not reprensent the truth
I got a high rating because I use AI-powered auto-complete, search and CodeRabbit for MRs. I'm suspicious. Perhaps the explanations provided by the hover-overs is less than clear?
Far lower. I assumed most companies aren’t even doing that, especially with the options I was given. I was a 1 or a 2 for most things, and a few 4s as appropriate.