As a person who has spent a lot of time in the industry working on developer tools during the age of AI (and I also speak to tons of other people in similar situations) one thing possibly overlooked by the DORA report is that many dev tools teams have abandoned delivering basic functionality to their developers in the pursuit of AI developer tools that have panned out partially or not at all.
I’m a strong believer in the power of AI to transform productivity, but if the basic developer toolchain stops functioning or you can’t do what you need to with it, no amount of AI developer tooling is going to improve the quality or delivery effectiveness of your systems.
This is awesome! One of the key aspects I think a lot of people miss is that coding with AI is a skill of its own. In my experience, AI assistants make coding faster but still require meticulous code review and the user to understand technical debt. This will only change as assistants continue to develop, but I don't see the need for meticulous review going away even with better assistants. Companies looking to have their developers code with the help of AI need to make this clear to employees.
As a person who has spent a lot of time in the industry working on developer tools during the age of AI (and I also speak to tons of other people in similar situations) one thing possibly overlooked by the DORA report is that many dev tools teams have abandoned delivering basic functionality to their developers in the pursuit of AI developer tools that have panned out partially or not at all.
I’m a strong believer in the power of AI to transform productivity, but if the basic developer toolchain stops functioning or you can’t do what you need to with it, no amount of AI developer tooling is going to improve the quality or delivery effectiveness of your systems.
This is awesome! One of the key aspects I think a lot of people miss is that coding with AI is a skill of its own. In my experience, AI assistants make coding faster but still require meticulous code review and the user to understand technical debt. This will only change as assistants continue to develop, but I don't see the need for meticulous review going away even with better assistants. Companies looking to have their developers code with the help of AI need to make this clear to employees.