2024 saw The New Stack report on a variety of survey-based research about software development. Several takeaways are included below, but please read the complete article here,
- Not all companies are leaving the cloud.
- Personal job security is stronger than would be expected based on developers’ generalized anxiety. However, developer salaries and wages have been constrained.
Platform Engineering and Developer Platforms
- Platform engineers are focused on infrastructure provisioning, which can be problematic because of the diversity of platforms being managed.
- Even though self-service increases productivity for developer teams, too many platform teams are failing to collect and demonstrate metrics of success.
- Time savings and increased productivity, not code quality, are why developers are using AI.
- Led by younger, inexperienced developers, AI tools have rapidly been adopted for use within the development process.
- GitHub Copilot did not experience mass adoption.
- Paid maintainers keep code safer.
- Maintainers worry about contributions from AI and unknown developers
