My job is developer productivity. I’ve worked in developer infrastructure for six years now so I have skin in the game here. I want the AI productivity story to be true. More output, tighter timelines, happier and more productive engineers. Who wouldn’t? But I keep looking at the actual research and then looking at what’s […]
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