After making dozens of prototypes with AI coding agents, here's what I think: human developers are still essential
In fact, instead of taking jobs, this new class of software tools may make workers busier than ever. I wrote about my experience for Ars Technica:
arstechnica.com/information-...
The report is hard to trust because you don't say how many people are using or even aware of the specific technologies in the charts. Can you release that information? For example, what % are aware of NVIDIA Triton and what % are actually using it?
cc @jbryce.bsky.social, @fredericl.bsky.social
Companies want to repatriate SOME workloads to private clouds but are lack in-house skills to manage these cloud environments. NOTE, they are focused apps that have 1) security/compliance needs; 2) are data intensive; and 3) are integrated with other systems.DevOps.com buff.ly/ARKHKMb
However, the battle to tame tool sprawl is making progress, according to a new survey of 1,700 IT teams by New Relic.
By @hjoslyn.bsky.social and @lawrencehecht.info
Since 2023, software engineers (developers) have been less keen to leave their Big Tech jobs. Note that of these companies, only Microsoft has seen a slight decline in total dev headcount. buff.ly/QC8zuUS
What’s slowing organizations down? Wonky workflows, slow failure recovery and scaling challenges are among the culprits, according to a new report by Temporal.
By @hjoslyn.bsky.social and @lawrencehecht.info
78% of this year's Stack Overflow developer survey use AI tools in the development process, up from 62% last year. We look at the key stats.
By @lawrencehecht.info
Once they release the raw data, we'll know if there was any impact due to the drop in sample size. At first glance, most of the demographics (except a drop in students) are the same.
but the its "Admired" numbers dropped. Only 56% of devs that have used it in the last year want to use it in the upcoming year. That is down from 68% in 2024.
yes, but less admired than in previous years
and here is a conclusion I cut from the article:
52% of developers agree that AI tools and/or AI agents have changed the way they complete their development work.
Corporate policy is not a big inhibitor.
23% of Devs Regularly Use AI Agents, per Stack Overflow Survey. AI agents have gained users because 70% of developers who have used one believe it has reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. buff.ly/W2gXKvu #StackOverflowSurvey
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1) I agree with your statement.
2) I think the GitHub purchasing decision is independent of being a Microsoft-first shop.
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For the charts that show # of responses, is that the same thing as # of respondents? OR is it the number of companies/tools that were cited?
The larger the company, the more likely a developer is to be using GitHub Copilot. This is does not hold true for other AI-coding tools that do not have a sales force to target enterprise-size customers. buff.ly/4AnaO1F cc @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com
75% of the survey said they have AI policies about what is allowed. Beyond that, monitoring AI for misuse/accuracy/drift and project risk evaluation are the most common AI governance efforts.
59% of organizations have established a role or office tasked with AI governance, according to a recent survey by @GradFlowTech and Pacific AI. The figure goes down to 36% for companies with <501 employees.
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GitOps is becoming the preferred deployment methodology within the Kubernetes community, with ArgoCD being the tool of choice, @octopus.com has found.
By @lawrencehecht.info and @joabj.bsky.social
this chart shows how technologists think different job roles are being impacted by AI.
AI-specific jobs are on the upswing, according to a new survey of tech talent by the @linuxfoundation.org.
By @hjoslyn.bsky.social and @lawrencehecht.info
2 relevant findings:
33% said AI is responsible for an increase in tech headcount in 2025, vs 12% saying it is causing a decline, per a @linuxfoundation.org survey
In a @leaddev.com study, 36% of participants said their organization’s IT headcount is increasing (36%) vs 30% citing a decline
The outlook for tech jobs IS NOT bleak. In fact, tech employment is increasing, not decreasing because of AI. Here are 2 articles @hjoslyn.bsky.social Heather Joslyn and I worked on:
thenewstack.io/ai-and-tech-...
thenewstack.io/tech-hiring-...
A few more conclusions about web devs and AI:
—59% agree that AI is an integral part of their workflow
—AI-generated code requires refactoring. 76% percent of developers have to rewrite or refactor at least half of the outputted code before it’s ready to be used.
Claude, Supermaven and Cursor users are much more likely to say they had a positive experience than users of other AI-based developer tools.
These are just some of the many findings we uncovered in “The 2025 State of Web Dev AI” report.
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According to BuiltWith, >30% of the most active websites have a robots.txt file. Note that many sites have multiple tokens, so reporting on some stats is difficult. That said, those totally banning content appears to have doubled.
Almost half (48%) of all robot.txt tokens on websites totally restrict what content can be accessed in '24, that's up 23% just from just 23% in '23
This means that the open web is being destroyed by website owners that are blocking content from scrapers feeding LLM & other AI models buff.ly/uhK3hpx
Big drop in fear about TikTok's impact on US national security. This is putting pressure on hardliners to make a deal with China or risk backlash -- and that's not even considering the trade war issue.
