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  1. Enlighten Designs AI Productivity Report cover for Part 3, Why Fixed-Price Delivery Gets Safer with AI, February Findings 2026, showing a robotic hand holding a digital shield with a tick.
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    Part 3: Why Fixed-Price Delivery Gets Safer with AI

    Verne Roberts

    Everyone else in the field assumes AI's advantage lies in its speed. So we looked deeper as we could, and we found a much different answer that it actually makes tasks dramatically more predictable. For fixed-price delivery, that's the result that actually makes all the difference.

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    Part 2: AI Adoption Is a Capability, Not a Tool: What a Before-and-After Look at Our Own Developers Showed

    Verne Roberts

    We compared each of our developers' delivery records before and after AI became part of everyday work: same people, same kind of work, only the environment changed. Part 2 of our AI productivity series explores what that shift revealed, and what it means for teams investing in AI.

  3. Enlighten Designs AI Productivity Report, part 1 of 3: What Developers Think They Use vs What They Actually Use, February 2026

    Part 1: What Developers Think They Use vs. What They Actually Use: Measuring AI Honestly

    Verne Roberts

    Developers flag only about half the AI work they actually do. Our February 2026 productivity data shows where self-reported adoption numbers break down, and why delivery outcomes improve even on tasks nobody ever tagged as AI-assisted.

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    Re:Gen AI Event: People as the Driving Force Behind AI

    As headline sponsors, Enlighten Designs had the opportunity to hold the successful Re:Gen AI Event in Hamilton. Hosted by InspiraEd and the Singularity AI Club at the University of Waikato, five different speakers, including Enlighten Designs staff, presented how humans in the loop are the most important part of AI as a tool.

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    The Invisible QA Work That Prevents Expensive Failures

    We sat down with Enlighten test analyst Dimithri Wellage to explore the invisible QA groundwork reading requirements critically, aligning teams early, running refinement that catches expensive problems before a single test case is written.

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    Techweek26 Event - Six Months of AI at Work. What Enlighten Found

    Enlighten Designs is hosting a free Techweek26 event in Hamilton on 20 May 2026. The session covers a year of real AI implementation, sharing genuine results, lessons learned, and honest insights on taking AI from pilot to production. Open to business leaders, developers, and anyone navigating AI in their organisation.

  7. AI Productivity Research and Findings from Enlighten Designs

    Does AI Make Software Delivery Faster? What We Learned in Nov 2025

    Verne Roberts

    Does AI make us faster? We posed that question to our data and analytics team, who ran a structured study over November 2025 and answered it with real delivery data — not gut feel. The answer is yes, but not how you'd expect. AI's real measurable benefit is not speed, but risk reduction and lower variance.

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    Performance of PHP Web Applications migrated to Azure PaaS

    What happens if you migrate to Azure and encounter worse performance? Our AppDev Practice Lead, Betty, dives into why a PHP app did just this

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    Azure Static Web Apps - Performance

    While doing some performance profiling of an app made for Azure SWA we noticed a rather large discrepency between the client times we were seeing and what our server side logging was outputting.

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    Legacy Application Decomposition Patterns: A Key to Successful Application Modernisation

    Our marketing and sales team at Enlighten Designs challenged us to explain in simple terms what our Application Development Practice actually does.

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    What Are Progressive Web Applications and How Do They Work

    While progressive web applications (also known as PWAs) have been around for a few years, web designers can expect to see many more of them in the coming year and beyond.

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