AI Metrics Benchmark 2026
What 191 CTOs and engineering leaders across Australiaand New Zealand told us about AI-written code, output, money, hiring and their CEOs.
Every chart in here is cut by team size, so find your peers. Teams over 50 are the ones saying they could runsmaller. Teams of five or fewer are the ones still growing.
This is why we run the CTO community: a place to compare notes with people in the same seat. If you are not in it yet, come and join. If you have a senior role to fill or want to know what the market pays, that is what nDeva does all day.
Key Takeaways
53%
say AI now writes over 70% of their new code
18%
actually measure the output change they report
39%
say requirements and product decisions arenow the bottleneck
53%
could run with a smaller team than they have
35%
say their CEO is too optimistic about AI
