Measuring developer experience, benchmarks, and providing a theory of improvement.

Back in 2020, I wrote a piece calledMy skepticism towards current developer meta-productivity tools,which laid out my three core problems with developer productivity measurement tools of the time:

Using productivity measures to evaluate rather than learnInstrumenting metrics required tweaks across too any different toolsGenerally I found tools forced an arbitrary, questionable model onto the problem

Two and a half years later, I made an angel investment in DX,which at the time I largely v...