According to a study by software provider Atlassian, most software developers do not feel that AI makes them significantly more productive. For 30 percent, AI tools do not contribute to increasing productivity at all, for 32 percent at least a little bit.
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However, your superiors have a completely different opinion. They all believe that their employees can do more work through AI. Developers are slightly more optimistic about the future. 35 percent are moderately, 26 percent are strongly convinced that AI will help them become more productive in the next two years.
Most developers don’t find AI very useful for their productivity. But they are more optimistic about the future.
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For “State of the Developer Experience Report 2024” (Download based on data) Atlassian surveyed 2,100 developers and their managers worldwide about their satisfaction and productivity. 69 percent of the developers surveyed said they lost more than 8 hours of work time per week due to inefficiencies – technical debt and poor documentation are the main reasons.
Less than half (44 percent) of developers believe that their bosses are aware of the problems. However, according to their own statements, 99 percent of them are aware that the role of software developers has become more complex. Lack of staff, new tasks, new technologies, frequent switching between different tools and problems collaborating with other teams are the main reasons.
Developer Productivity Is Elusive
Productivity has become difficult to measure. The number of lines of code, deployment frequency, completed story points from a sprint, and even the number of hours worked are often used as productivity metrics. But managers are not satisfied with this. More than half consider the metrics they themselves use to be inappropriate.
To measure developer satisfaction, more than half of managers use surveys, 43 percent use developer experience platforms, and 41 percent also use productivity measurement tools to assess developer satisfaction. In addition to AI, managers believe that new collaboration tools, space for experimentation, better decision-making processes, and organizing hackathons will improve developer satisfaction and productivity.
(ulw)
