Creating benchmarkable components to measure the quality of AI-enhanced developer tools

In the AI community, benchmarks to evaluate model quality are well established, but an equivalent approach to benchmarking products built upon generative AI models is still missing. This has had two consequences. First, it has made teams focus on model quality over the developer experience, while successful products combine both. Second, product team have struggled to answer questions about their products in relation to their competitors. In this case study, we share: (1) our process to create robust, enterprise-grade and modular components to support the benchmarking of the developer experience (DX) dimensions of our team’s AI for code offerings, and (2) the components we have created to do so, including demographics and attitudes towards AI surveys, a benchmarkable task, and task and feature surveys. By doing so, we hope to lower the barrier to the DX benchmarking of genAI-enhanced code products.