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Everyone Feels Faster. Almost Nobody Can Prove It.
What 554 developers and engineering leaders told us about AI, agents, and the measurement gap nobody’s closing. Ask a developer if AI made them faster
You Aren’t As Behind As You Think
TL;DR: There have been a couple tweets and posts about the AI adoption curve that I found interesting: I highly recommend reading the original posts
AI Was Supposed to Mean Working Less. For Some Developers, It’s Doing the Opposite.
AI coding tools were supposed to mean developers work less. On a recent webinar recorded with LeadDev, senior engineering manager Vernon put words to something
GitLens 19 Shows You the Whole Stack, Not Just the Next Pull Request
Splitting one big pull request into five smaller ones doesn’t automatically make review faster. It just moves the complexity from the diff to your head,
Kepler and Insights: Built From Opposite Directions
Most companies buy AI tools for developers and hope the impact shows up somewhere. A faster sprint. Fewer escaped bugs. Something. What they don’t have
How a Request in Slack Turns Into a GitKraken Feature
Most companies will tell you they’re customer-obsessed. Fewer can point to the actual mechanism. At GitKraken, it isn’t a quarterly survey or a roadmap council.
GitLens 19: The Commit Graph Reimagined for Parallel Development
The Commit Graph is where your development and agentic workflows come together. Visualize branches and commits, manage parallel work and agents, and run your entire
ACP: The Protocol Powering Kepler
The secret sauce that powers Agentic Development Environments (ADEs) like Kepler is a little thing called the Agent Client Protocol (ACP). In this context, Kepler
An 80% AI Adoption Rate Is Like an 80% Gym Membership Rate. It Doesn’t Prove Anyone Got Stronger.
Leadership has stopped asking whether your team is using AI. They’re asking what you’re delivering with it. That’s a harder question, because most of the
Every AI Agent You Add Leaves Something Behind to Clean Up
Adding a second AI agent to a project feels like doubling your output. In practice, it usually means doubling your bookkeeping too. Every agent needs
Open Models Are Closing the Gap
The frontier models have led the pack for a while now. It seems like the big players of Anthropic and OpenAI keep leapfrogging each other
Why Kepler Doesn’t Care Which AI Agent You Use
Most teams adopting AI agents are making a bet on which one wins. Claude or Codex, Copilot or something newer next quarter. That bet is
GitKraken Desktop 12.4: See Every Agent, Approve Every Change
GitKraken Desktop 12.4 gives developers running several worktrees and AI agent sessions a single graph to see it all, plus an inline way to approve
Straight from Support: AI credits, student plans, and why your Mac fans are so loud
Every so often we sit down with someone from our support team and turn their week into a blog post. First up: Roberto Vizcarra, on
Kepler Is in Public Preview: One Task, Every Repo, Every Agent
A faster car doesn’t get you home faster if the freeway is still jammed. That is the problem most teams run into once they add
GitKraken’s Claude Code Plugin Is Live: No CLI Required
If you haven’t heard about our MCP server, you should really check it out. It’s probably the best way to give your agents access to
GitKraken Code Review: A Different Way to See What a Pull Request Actually Changed
Most PR descriptions leave out the one thing a reviewer actually needs: why the change was made. And AI review bots that live natively inside
GitLens 18 Turns the Commit Graph Into an Agent Command Center
Five coding agents sounds like leverage right up until a developer is the one keeping track of all five: one fixing a bug, one building

Do Gemini Models Deserve the Hate?
Recently, Google released a couple new Gemini models. They were Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber. Many people on the internet
GitKraken Desktop: Go Deep on One Repo, With an Agent Riding Along
Before agents were part of the picture, GitKraken Desktop had one job: make Git make sense. Visualize the commit graph, show branches and remotes clearly,
Why We Built Kepler: One Engineer’s Frustration With Fifteen Open Terminals
We didn’t set out to build a new category of product. We set out to stop juggling. That’s the word Gyo, the senior engineer who
GitLens 18.2: AI-Powered Merge Conflict Resolution for VS Code
The Merge Conflict Problem Nobody Talks About Merge conflicts rarely make it into a sprint retrospective, but they should. They’re one of the most reliable
Introducing GitBench
TL;DR: You can see the results of GitBench here https://gitbench.gitkraken.com GitBench is our attempt to see how well LLMs handle git-specific tasks. We put together
GitKraken: The Code Flow Company
From plan to main. Software is no longer just a tool. It is the infrastructure of modern life. Software keeps airplanes in the sky and
Introducing Kepler: The Delivery Engine for Agent-Driven Development
You’re no longer writing code. You’re managing a pipeline of agents writing it for you. If you’ve been running two, three, or four AI coding
Healthy PR Lifecycle Time: Benchmarks & Targets (2026)
Your pull request has been open for three days. Your reviewer hasn’t commented. You’re starting to wonder if anyone will ever look at it—and whether
How to Use Git Blame in Your Editor in 6 Steps (2026)
Tracking down who made a specific change in your codebase can feel like detective work. Whether you’re debugging an issue or trying to understand why
10 Privacy-First Engineering Intelligence Platforms 2026
Engineering leaders need more than raw metrics, they need actionable insights they can trust with their data. When evaluating engineering intelligence platforms, privacy controls and
Preview launch: the Agent Impact Leaderboard and the Business Impact & ROI Dashboard
The Agent Impact Leaderboard and the Business Impact & ROI Dashboard are live in preview inside GitKraken Insights today. We built them because the questions
GitLens 18: Git Workflows For The Agent Era
AI changed how code gets written. It didn’t change how developers need to understand, review, and ship that code. That’s the real shift happening inside
The 5 Hats We Wear During Code Review
If you are a software developer or engineer, you most likely have to do code review. At the bare minimum, you probably have had your
AI Productivity Metrics Dashboard for Engineering Managers (2026)
Measuring AI’s impact on your engineering team is harder than it sounds. Headlines claim AI writes 30% of code and doubles productivity, but those numbers
7 Jellyfish Alternatives for Engineering Intelligence in 2026
Engineering leaders know the challenge: you need visibility into team performance, but the tools designed to help often cost six figures and take months to
GitLens vs VS Code Git Graph Ranked for Solo Devs
Choosing the right Git extension for your VS Code setup can make the difference between a smooth workflow and hours lost hunting for context. GitLens,
Measure Development Velocity Without Gaming Metrics (2026)
Development velocity tells you how much work your engineering team completes during a sprint – but measuring it incorrectly can hurt more than it helps.
Proving AI Impact: DORA and Velocity Metrics Guide (2026)
AI coding tools are everywhere now. According to the 2025 DORA Report, 90% of developers use AI tools at work, up from 76% the year
GitLens vs VS Code Git Graph Use Cases From Reddit 2026
If you’ve spent any time on r/vscode or r/git, you’ve seen the debate: GitLens or Git Graph? Both extensions have millions of installs, but they
8 Secure Engineering Intelligence Platforms for Git Oversight (2026)
Engineering intelligence platforms give you visibility into how your code moves from commit to production. But visibility alone isn’t enough, you also need enterprise-grade security
Choosing a Software Engineering Intelligence Platform (2026)
Engineering leaders face a common challenge: too much data scattered across too many tools, and no clear picture of how software delivery is actually performing.
Version Control Platforms 2026: Workflow Comparison
If you spend most of your day in branches and pull requests, the platforms you pick decide how much friction you carry. The “version control
Prevent Merge Conflicts in Small Teams: 2026 Guide
Merge conflicts can bring a small team’s momentum to a grinding halt. You’re working on a feature, ready to push your changes, and suddenly Git
How to Choose GitFlow vs Trunk-Based in 7 Steps (2026)
If your team fights merge conflicts every week, the branching strategy is usually a bigger lever than the tools you reach for. This guide is
GitLens vs VS Code Git Graph: Setup & Productivity
Picking the right VS Code Git extension can shape how you move through your codebase every day. GitLens and Git Graph both add visual Git tools to

Jira GitHub Integration: The Complete Guide
Most teams use Jira to plan work and GitHub to build it. The problem is those two tools don’t talk to each other by default.
GitKraken Desktop 12.0.1 Update
GitKraken Desktop 12.0 delivered a big increase in value for managing agentic development workflows. We’re trying to move as fast as this market, and in
You’re Running Agents. Your Tooling Is Still Catching Up.
Introducing GitKraken Desktop 12.0. At some point in the last year, the question shifted. It stopped being “should I use AI coding agents?” and became

AI Is an Amplifier, Not a Shortcut
There’s a version of the AI story that engineering leaders want to hear. It goes like this: adopt AI coding tools, watch output multiply, ship

Margaret Hamilton Coined “Software Engineering” Because Code Deserves the Same Rigor as Bridges
During International Women’s Month, we celebrate women whose technical work changed entire industries. But the lessons from engineers like Margaret Hamilton aren’t seasonal, they’re fundamental
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