Fragments: March 16

Annie Vella did some research into how 158 professional software engineers used AI, her first question was: Are AI tools shifting where engineers actually spend their time and effort? Because if they are, they’re implicitly shifting what skills we practice and, ultimately, the definition of the role itself. She found that participants saw a shift from creation-oriented tasks to verification-oriented tasks, but it was a different form of verification than reviewing and testing. In my thesis, I pr