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The State of AI Adoption in Engineering Teams 📊 — with Matt McClernan

Refactoring Podcast Season 5 • Episode 14

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Today’s guest is Matt McClernan, CEO of Augment Code!

With Matt, we went through:

  • The findings of our own research that we developed together with Augment, surveying more than 400 engineering teams about how they’re using AI.

  • The differences between personal and team adoption, how documentation looks like a secret weapon, how to manage context in AI coding, and much more. And then we talked about

  • How the UX of AI coding is changing with IDEs, CLI tools and agents, and what the future might bring.

🥇 Interview Summary

If you are a 🔒 paid subscriber 🔒 you will find my own summary of the interview below.

It’s the 10-minute takeaways of what we talked about, with timestamps to the relevant video moments, for those who don’t have time to sit through the 1-hour chat.

Here is the agenda for today:

  1. 🤖 Personal vs. Team AI Adoption

  2. 🔄 Building AI Champions and Feedback Loops

  3. 📚 Documentation as the Secret Weapon

  4. 🎯 Managing Context in Large Codebases

  5. ⚡ Code Quality and the Future of AI Coding

Let’s dive in 👇


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