DORA in the Age of AI: When Deployment Frequency Lies
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Here is a number that should unsettle you: according to the 2025 DORA State of AI-Assisted Software Development report, developer PRs merged per person rose 98% while incidents per PR rose 242.7%. Deployment frequency looks elite. The system is breaking more often per unit of change than at any point DORA has measured.
Your dashboard is green. Your on-call engineers are exhausted. Something is wrong with the measuring tape.
