# Special: The DORA 2025 Critical Review Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/adventures-in-devops/special-the-dora-2025-critical-review Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/adventures-in-devops/special-the-dora-2025-critical-review.md Podcast: [Adventures in DevOps](https://stenobird.com/podcast/adventures-in-devops) Published: 2026-01-02T00:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://adventuresindevops.com/episodes/260-dora-report-ai-and-platform-engineering Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/69277490/download.mp3 Processing state: failed JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/adventures-in-devops/episodes/special-the-dora-2025-critical-review Duration seconds: 3511 ## Resource Share Episode                     "Those memes are not going to make themselves."           Dorota, CEO of Authress , joins us to roast the 2025 DORA Report, which she argues has replaced hard data with an AI-generated narrative. From the confusing disconnect between feeling productive and actually shipping code to the grim reality of a 30% acceptance rate, Warren and Dorota break down why this year's report smells a lot like manure.           We dissect the massive 142-page 2025 DORA Report. Dorota argues that the report, which is now rebranded as the "State of AI-Assisted Software Development", feels less like a scientific study of DevOps performance and more like a narrative written by an intern using an LLM prompt. The duo investigates the "stubborn results" where AI apparently makes everyone feel like a 10x developer, where the hard results tell a different story. AI actually increases software and product instability — failing to improve.           The conversation gets spicy as they debate the "pit of failure" that is feature flags (often used as a crutch for untested code) and the embarrassing reality that GitHub celebrates a mere 30% code acceptance rate as a "success." Dorota suggests that while AI raises the floor for average work, it completely fails when you need to solve complex problems or, you know, actually collaborate with another human being.           In a vivid analogy, Dorota compares reading this year's report to the Swiss Spring phenomenon — the time of year when farmers spray man… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/adventures-in-devops/episodes/special-the-dora-2025-critical-review/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/adventures-in-devops/special-the-dora-2025-critical-review.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.