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    "text": "The impact on developer velocity internally is clear: we’ve never seen a quarter-to-quarter increase in merge requests to this degree. As AI tooling adoption has grown the 4-week rolling average has climbed from ~5,600/week to over 8,700.",
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      "title": "The AI engineering stack we built internally, on the platform we ship",
      "type": "post",
      "date": "2026-04-20",
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    "Check the verification status: \"reported\" means not yet confirmed by an independent second reader.",
    "Organizations flagged aiVendor sell AI tooling and have a reason to publish flattering numbers.",
    "An empty result means the archive holds nothing on it, not that nobody has said anything."
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