Most software developers that I know, especially the best ones, loathe worthless tasks. This is probably true of most people who strive to do what they do to the best of their ability, but I’m not ...

AI tools don’t always boost productivity. A new study from Model Evaluation and Threat Research found that when 16 software developers were asked to perform tasks using AI tools, the they took longer ...

AI is another wave of leverage. It raises the floor of productivity. It lowers the barrier to experimentation. It makes scaffolding and boilerplate nearly trivial. But durable systems are not defined ...

The development process improves because it is informed by real outcomes. AI learns from what happened, and the team adjusts its inputs. This creates a flywheel effect, with each phase building on the ...

Jay Hack, an AI researcher with a background in natural language processing and computer vision, came to the realization several years ago that large language models (LLMs) — think OpenAI’s GPT-4 or ...

It can autonomously plan and execute thousand-step tasks. It can build and deploy entire software projects all by itself. It can research and fix bugs 7x better than OpenAI's GPT-4, and it trains and ...