The playbook to close your team’s AI productivity gap | LinearB’s Yishai Beeri
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The playbook to close your team’s AI productivity gap | LinearB’s Yishai Beeri

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 11, 202647 min

This week, LinearB CTO Yishai Beeri joins the show to unpack fresh mid-year benchmark data revealing a widening productivity gap between elite engineering teams and the rest of the industry. The conversation explores why tracking pure AI adoption is a trap, detailing how leaders must shift focus to measuring true leverage through metrics like PR yield rate and cost per PR. Finally, they break down why fully autonomous agentic workflows are currently bottlenecking at the review stage and how to establish human ownership to prove real ROI to your finance team. Get the guide: The AI...

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Welcome back to Dev Interrupted, brought to you by Linear B. My guest today is Yishai Beery, Linear B's CTO. And he spent the last few months exploring at Linear B whether this AI spend in the industry

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is turning into measured, delivered work. Because something shifted in the last year for engineering teams and we're all still grappling with it. Some teams pulled ahead with AI,

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others stayed flat and some even took a dive and left unchecked that gap can rip your engineering team in half. So in today's episode, Ben and I dig into how to close that gap and prove AI ROI.

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