
2025-08-12 16:44:50
"If the world followed the Tao, Apple would make the hardware, Microsoft would make the developer tools, and everything would run under QNX. Alas, QNX has been bought by BlackBerry, Microsoft makes operating systems and Apple makes developer tools."
https://akos.ma/blog/the-tao-of-swift/…
Code with Me or for Me? How Increasing AI Automation Transforms Developer Workflows
Valerie Chen, Ameet Talwalkar, Robert Brennan, Graham Neubig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08149
Four in five developers use AI tools in their workflow in 2025
—a portion that has been rapidly growing in recent years.
That said, "trust in the accuracy of AI has fallen from 40 percent in previous years to just 29 percent this year."
The disparity between those two metrics illustrates the evolving and complex impact of AI tools like GitHub Copilot or Cursor on the profession.
There's relatively little debate among developers that the tools are or oug…
#StackOverflow 2025 Developer Survey
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025
"DHCPv6 PD support is expected to roll out to most devices running Android 11 and above before the end of the year [...]"
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/simplifying-advanced-networking-with.html
For bac…
"When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%."
About fucking time... Android finally doing proper DHCPv6. When this is live on my phone I can turn off SLAAC, and not have Windows insist on using it (yes, there's meant to be ways to stop Windows from using SLAAC, so it only uses DHCPv6, but I never saw any of them work). *I* don't want 'random' addresses, I want predictable ones for firewalling and ACLs:
Software innovation might be freezing in place—and AI could be to blame. Theo Browne points out that Copilot and ChatGPT often return React-style code even for Solid or Elixir projects. Why? Because they’ve seen React a million times more. Python 3 took a decade to overtake Python 2. If that transition had to happen today, would our dependence on AI suggestions keep us from making the jump?
OpenAI highlights GPT-5 scores on math, coding, and health benchmarks: 94.6% on AIME 2025 without tools, 74.9% on SWE-bench Verified, 46.2% on HealthBench Hard (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-launches-gpt-5-n…
Developer Insights into Designing AI-Based Computer Perception Tools
Maya Guhan (Center for Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA), Meghan E. Hurley (Center for Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA), Eric A. Storch (Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA), John Herrington (Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Children's Hospita…
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Leveraging LLMs for Semantic Conflict Detection via Unit Test Generation
Nathalia Barbosa (Centro de Inform\'atica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil), Paulo Borba (Centro de Inform\'atica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil), L\'euson Da Silva (Polytechnique Montreal, Canad\'a)
https://arxiv.org…
Nova Launcher is shutting down, and Android fans are heartbroken
Nova’s founder and original developer, Kevin Barry, made the announcement over the weekend. On September 6, Barry posted a message confirming that he had left Branch, the analytics firm that acquired Nova Launcher in 2022, and would no longer be involved with the project.
From my LinkedIn post: “Telling your dev team to use AI coding tools is like telling your 2010 ops team to use AWS. They didn’t know how to code, they were ticket and click-it VMware people… developers who don’t have product management mindset or have never managed a dev team will fail by trying to micromanage the output of the tool rather than specifying the outcome of the product and managing the agent team to deliver that outcome.”
The Impact of Generative AI on Code Expertise Models: An Exploratory Study
Ot\'avio Cury, Guilherme Avelino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08160 https://…
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CLARA: A Developer's Companion for Code Comprehension and Analysis
Ahmed Adnan, Mushfiqur Rahman, Saad Sakib Noor, Kazi Sakib
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09072 https://
Offloading tracing for real-time systems using a scalable cloud infrastructure
David Jannis Schmidt, Grigory Fridman, Florian von Zabiensky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19953 http…
From Noise to Knowledge: Interactive Summaries for Developer Alerts
Burak Yeti\c{s}tiren, Hong Jin Kang, Miryung Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07169 https://
I’ve been discussing some agent swarm based development work on LinkedIn. So far it’s going well, I’m figuring out how to get the results I want from the tools. As I say there, it feels more like managing a team of experienced product managers and developers (which I’ve done a few times in my career) than doing developer work faster.
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The SPACE of AI: Real-World Lessons on AI's Impact on Developers
Brian Houck, Travis Lowdermilk, Cody Beyer, Steven Clarke, Ben Hanrahan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00178 htt…
The Impact of LLM-Assistants on Software Developer Productivity: A Systematic Literature Review
Amr Mohamed, Maram Assi, Mariam Guizani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03156
An Empirical Study of GenAI Adoption in Open-Source Game Development: Tools, Tasks, and Developer Challenges
Xiang Echo Chen, Wenhan Zhu, Guoshuai Albert Shi, Michael W. Godfrey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18029
Beyond Autocomplete: Designing CopilotLens Towards Transparent and Explainable AI Coding Agents
Runlong Ye, Zeling Zhang, Boushra Almazroua, Michael Liut
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20062
"Maybe We Need Some More Examples:" Individual and Team Drivers of Developer GenAI Tool Use
Courtney Miller, Rudrajit Choudhuri, Mara Ulloa, Sankeerti Haniyur, Robert DeLine, Margaret-Anne Storey, Emerson Murphy-Hill, Christian Bird, Jenna L. Butler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21280
zkSDK: Streamlining zero-knowledge proof development through automated trace-driven ZK-backend selection
William Law
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05294 https…
An Efficient and Adaptive Next Edit Suggestion Framework with Zero Human Instructions in IDEs
Xinfang Chen, Siyang Xiao, Xianying Zhu, Junhong Xie, Ming Liang, Dajun Chen, Wei Jiang, Yong Li, Peng Di
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02473
Precisely Detecting Python Type Errors via LLM-based Unit Test Generation
Chen Yang, Ziqi Wang, Yanjie Jiang, Lin Yang, Yuteng Zheng, Jianyi Zhou, Junjie Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02318
Towards Trustworthy Sentiment Analysis in Software Engineering: Dataset Characteristics and Tool Selection
Martin Obaidi, Marc Herrmann, Jil Kl\"under, Kurt Schneider
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02137
The Influence of HEXACO Personality Traits on the Teamwork Quality in Software Teams -- A Preliminary Research Approach
Philipp M. Z\"ahl, Sabine Theis, Martin R. Wolf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00481