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85% of junior developers say AI tools have improved their understanding of software development. But only 16% of senior developers say juniors fully understand the AI-generated code they submit. The Q2 2026 Dev Barometer, out today, brings this gap to the forefront.
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That's what the full report examines — including an independent academic analysis by Francisco Anello, Director of the Master in Business and Technology at Universidad de San Andrés, who argues the real gap is one of exposure, not knowledge.
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An engineer on your team now ships in a day what used to take a sprint. The gap between a good engineering team and a great one isn't really about talent or culture anymore. It's about how fast a team learns to work differently.
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Teams pulling ahead right now are building two new disciplines on top of that foundation: treating AI fluency as a continuous core competency and orienting around step-function gains rather than incremental ones.
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79% of senior tech leaders say they're pressured to overstate AI progress. That's what our AI Execution Gap survey found, based on responses from 501 U.S. decision-makers running active AI initiatives at their companies.
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Read together, the two findings describe a structural pattern. 83% of respondents plan to increase AI spending over the next 12 months, while the foundations underneath aren't keeping pace. The friction doesn't go away when the reporting layer flattens it.
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Procurement isn't underperforming because it lacks talent or headcount. It's saturated. Buried in low-leverage work that consumes the capacity that should be going to strategy. That's the reframe our Fellow, Keith McFarlane, CTO at Globality, argues for in his new piece.
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Keith's argument is that AI changes this only when it's architected to remove low-leverage work, not when it's layered on top as another interface.
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