Throwing AI at Developers Won’t Fix Their Problems
Systemic engineering bottlenecks won’t disappear by just throwing AI at them. You’ve got to fix the roadblocks to realize the full value of AI tools.
Throwing AI at Developers Won’t Fix Their Problems
Systemic engineering bottlenecks won’t disappear by just throwing AI at them. You’ve got to fix the roadblocks to realize the full value of AI tools.
Ankit Jain
CEO @ Aviator
AI is Eating Developer Experience
Developer experience was about making developers happy. AI experience is about shortening the loop without loss of safety.
Platform Engineering Won’t Save You
If you’re helping developers ship software with less friction, congratulations, you’re already doing some form of platform engineering.
The Anti-Metrics Era of Developer Productivity
Instead of building shiny dashboards, let’s focus on automated workflows across the entire SDLC – development, code reviews, builds, tests, and deployments.
Internal Developer Portals Should Be Internal Developer Hubs
Many IDPs function as passive portals, adding complexity without real developer benefit.
The Clone Wars: A Star Wars Story of Monorepos
Do we really need another blog talking about monorepos and polyrepos? Maybe not, but let’s try a new take on this Star Wars Day!
What Will Software Engineering Look Like in 2027?
Instead of adding yet another hot take on whether vibe coding is real or if AI is about to replace software engineers, I wanted to take a shot at predicting what software engineering might look like in 2027.
Solving the Nasty Code Migration Problem with Assisted AI Agents
Code migrations are like cleaning the house. We know we have to do it, but we wish we didn't have to. Yet, we are still only using AI to create new code vs cleaning the existing mess.
Aviator Agents: LLM-Assisted Large Scale Code Migrations
Aviator Agents is a purpose-built code migration system built for scale and correctness.
How to Do Developer Satisfaction Surveys Right
Get the feedback without the developer survey fatigue.
Measuring Developer Productivity the Right Way
How to measure software developer productivity without ending up with a stock-market-like dashboard tracking hundreds of metrics
Rebuilding Google’s Engineering Productivity (EngProd)
We're rebuilding Google’s EngProd on the modern engineering stack to solve collaboration challenges at every stage of the development process, from code reviews to builds, testing, merging, and deployment.
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