Animesh Mishra, senior solutions engineer at Diffblue, joins Ryan and Ben to talk about how AI agents can help you get better test coverage. Animesh explains how agentic AI can expedite and enhance automation and refactoring processes, how Diffblue leverages machine learning techniques to write effective unit tests, and why clear use cases and trust are so important in developing AI tools. Plus: Why Diffblue sees Copilot as a complement, not a competitor.
Ben and Ryan are joined by RJ Tuit, Head of UI Platform and Client Architect at ClickUp, formerly an engineering director at Microsoft. They talk about ClickUp’s vision for a comprehensive productivity platform, the complexities of measuring productivity and UX in software development, how to navigate the hype around AI, and more. Plus: What it was like scaling Microsoft’s cloud services to meet the unprecedented demands of a global workforce in quarantine.
A developer’s journal is a place to define the problem you’re solving and record what you tried and what worked.
Ben and Ryan are joined by Cortex cofounders Anish Dhar, CEO, and Ganesh Datta, CTO. Cortex offers an internal developer portal that helps devs document and reinforce organizational best practices and improve developer productivity. The portal includes features like scorecards that incentivize developers to improve their work and AI-powered search to make finding information easier.
CodeGen is fast, but you need to be good.
Anand Das, cofounder and CTO of Bito AI, joins Ben and Ryan for a conversation about the intersection of developer productivity and GenAI.
Plenty of workers prefer flexibility, regardless of what the research says.
Being an effective coder with a code generation tool still requires you to be an effective coder without one.
If you want the tech debt metaphor to really shine, get some numbers behind it.
Attention—the time and freedom to focus—is your team’s most valuable resource.
Developers view about half their meetings negatively. Can we find better ways to use that time?
Keystrokes per minute is a terrible measure of productivity, but a keyboard can help you focus better to be productive.
An amazing group of experts gave talks on everything from developer productivity to the future of hybrid work and remote learning.
Do we work better when we outsource our memory to other tools?
While countless apps are competing for your attention, here's some tips on how to fight back.
Episode one of our four-part series sponsored by Logitech.
Productive teams get product fixes and features out the door fast. Here's the metrics to check to see how your team is delivering.
Defining and measuring programmer productivity is one of the most difficult parts of an engineering manager or CTO’s job description. When everything you do is intangible, how should you measure it? Can it be measured at all?
The impetus to provide an estimate for development work most often comes from non-developer stakeholders in your organization. Learning to do it well can improve collaboration and coordination across departments, making everyone happier and more productive.
