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Understand AI's impact on delivery, quality, and productivity

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Route tasks using model performance proven on your own code

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Ron Meldiner

Ron Meldiner

Ron is an experienced engineering leader and developer productivity specialist. Prior to his current role as Field CTO at Faros, Ron led developer infrastructure at Dropbox.

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How to use AI session logs to improve coding agent workflows

Your AI session logs capture vital intent, execution, and reaction signals. Learn to retain useful context, run automated retrospectives, and turn daily interaction data into powerful workflow improvements.
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Is intelligent model routing enough to improve AI coding performance?

Evidence from 211 real engineering tasks shows why AI coding performance depends on the full route: model, harness, repository context, and task.
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Open source vs. frontier AI models: Which are best for coding?

Open AI models matched frontier quality at half the cost in Faros's 211-task coding experiment. See the results and build your own model routing policy.
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6/17/26

Token Intelligence: The missing operating layer for AI

Token intelligence turns raw AI usage into operational context for engineering, finance, and leadership. Here's what it is, why it matters, and how to build it.
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What Really Drives Developer Productivity? Insights from New Research

Dive into leading developer productivity research to uncover the multidimensional drivers shaping engineering efficiency.
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How much code is AI-generated?

AI generates 25% of Google’s new code. Other organizations seek similar insights to mitigate the risks of this new age of AI-driven development.
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Bridge the Gap Between Engineering and Business with Engineering Data Unification

Bridge the Gap Between Engineering and Business with Engineering Data Unification
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Anatomy of a Metric: Build Time

Is the Build Time metric the right measure to demonstrate the ROI of Developer Productivity investments? Does it stand up in court? We examine through real-life trial and error.
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Fast and Furious: Attempt to Merge

A guide to measuring continuous integration metrics, such as CI Speed and CI Reliability, and an introduction to the most important developer productivity metric you never knew existed.
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