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Why most developers hate their tech stack

1 week ago | leaddev.com | Bill Doerrfeld

You have 1 article left to read this month before you need to register a free LeadDev.com account. Receive weekly engineering insights to level up your leadership approach. Estimated reading time: 1 minuteIf you feel squeamish about your aging tech stack, you’re not alone. A massive 86% of developers are embarrassed by their tech stack, according to a survey of 200 senior developers by Storyblok, a headless CMS provider, with 58% considering leaving their company as a result.
7 prompting strategies to sharpen your AI-assisted code

2 weeks ago | leaddev.com | Bill Doerrfeld

You have 1 article left to read this month before you need to register a free LeadDev.com account. Receive weekly engineering insights to level up your leadership approach. Estimated reading time: 6 minutesAI-assisted coding isn’t just a trendy concept for startups – it’s becoming a bonafide enterprise development practice. According to StackOverflow, 76% of developers use or plan to use AI in their development process.
Is AI code sabotaging its own ROI case?

1 month ago | leaddev.com | Bill Doerrfeld

You have 1 article left to read this month before you need to register a free LeadDev.com account. Receive weekly engineering insights to level up your leadership approach. Estimated reading time: 6 minutesAI coding assistants have significantly lowered the bar of entry when it comes to creating new code. But this is only half of the picture.
The problem with shadow development

1 month ago | leaddev.com | Kelli Maria Korducki

You have 1 article left to read this month before you need to register a free LeadDev.com account. Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Receive weekly engineering insights to level up your leadership approach. You’ve heard of ‘Shadow IT’, where white collar workers’ use unauthorized tools to bypass company-approved enterprise software.
The secret behind Java's success at 30-years-old

1 month ago | leaddev.com | Chris Stokel-Walker

You have 1 article left to read this month before you need to register a free LeadDev.com account. Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Receive weekly engineering insights to level up your leadership approach. Thirty years ago, Sun Microsystems unveiled Java’s first developer’s kit to the world with a bold promise to “write once, run anywhere”. The gambit was laid down to Microsoft, which was seeking the opposite goal – to lock people into a Windows ecosystem.
Why untested AI-generated code is a crisis waiting to happen

1 month ago | leaddev.com | Chris Stokel-Walker

You have 1 article left to read this month before you need to register a free LeadDev.com account. Receive weekly engineering insights to level up your leadership approach. Estimated reading time: 2 minutesAI coding assistants have turbo-charged coding, shrinking release cycles to days and becoming the norm within companies. But that speed boost comes with fresh trade-offs.
Why leaders trust AI more than their colleagues

2 months ago | leaddev.com | Kelli Maria Korducki

You have 1 article left to read this month before you need to register a free LeadDev.com account. Receive weekly engineering insights to level up your leadership approach. Estimated reading time: 4 minutesIn a few short years, generative AI has evolved from a marvel of disruptive technology to a central lever in corporations’ rally toward peak efficiency. A new survey from SAP suggests that AI models are becoming C-Suite executives’ most trusted strategic sounding boards.
AI is changing how software teams work together

2 months ago | leaddev.com | Chris Stokel-Walker

You have 1 article left to read this month before you need to register a free LeadDev.com account. Receive weekly engineering insights to level up your leadership approach. Estimated reading time: 3 minutesFrom the International Monetary Fund warning 40% of jobs will be affected, to Goldman Sachs saying 300 million jobs could be permanently affected, AI’s impact has been focused on big numbers.
How AI will change software engineering

2 months ago | leaddev.com | Kari McMahon

You have 1 article left to read this month before you need to register a free LeadDev.com account. Receive weekly engineering insights to level up your leadership approach. Estimated reading time: 9 minutesThe consensus about the future of the software engineering industry is that there is no consensus.
The 3 factors that drive great Revenue per Engineer returns

2 months ago | leaddev.com | Bill Doerrfeld

You have 1 article left to read this month before you need to register a free LeadDev.com account. Receive weekly engineering insights to level up your leadership approach. Estimated reading time: 5 minutesNew DX benchmarking unveils the three ingredients that improve the bottom line for engineering, as the impact of AI coding assistants begins to be felt. Engineering has long been a black box.