Development leaders have witnessed firsthand how AI has fundamentally reshaped the innovation landscape. Recent data now demonstrates the massive scale of this transformation.
AI-powered software innovation is generating savings of more than $28,000 per developer annually, according to GitLab’s 2025 survey of C-suite executives, which surveyed thousands of C-level executives worldwide. Applying this to the world’s 27 million developers means that AI has the potential to unlock more than $750 billion in global value annually.
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