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The AI hype train isn’t slowing down, but are we still focusing on the wrong parts of the software development life cycle?
While AI coding assistant vendors and early adopters are both quick to boast of massive productivity gains, recent studies show that AI might actually be slowing developers down.
But debating the effectiveness of this new class of tools misses the point entirely. The top-down push to adopt AI coding tools has largely focused on the wrong things: code generation.
As companies continue to invest in their AI capabilities, even sometimes justifying layoffs, 60% of organizations still struggle to effectively measure their impact on software velocity or stability, according to a recent LeadDev study.
