• Insights from our executive roundtable on AI and engineering productivity Improving engineering productivity is crucial to the work we do at Dropbox. • The more quickly we can deliver high-quality features to our customers, the more value they can get from our products. • This rapid iteration has been key to developing tools likeDropbox Dash, context-aware AI that connects to all your work apps, so you can search, ask questions about, and organize all your content. • In the process of building Dash, we’ve become big adopters of AI tools in our own work, from Claude Code to Cursor. • The early results have been promising, but there are still a lot of open questions about how to work with these tools most effectively and where they can have the most impact. • To push this conversation forward,Dropbox CTO Ali Dasdanhosted an executive roundtable on December 11, 2025, at our San Francisco studio.
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- Dropbox’s CTO Ali Dasdan hosted an executive roundtable on December 11, 2025, to discuss how AI can boost engineering productivity. The event gathered technology leaders from leading firms to share ideas on integrating AI tools-such as Claude Code and Cursor-into development workflows. Dropbox has made AI adoption a company‑wide priority, reducing approval overhead and enabling teams to experiment. Early results show AI improving code review, documentation, debugging, and testing, with most developers now using at least one AI tool. The company tracks pull‑request throughput and engineer sentiment to gauge impact, noting that higher AI engagement correlates with increased code output and reduced friction.
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