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New research puts the AI rework bill at 139 hours per engineer, and that’s the conservative estimate.
AI tools now flood maintainers like Google and curl with real vulnerability reports. Your team needs a plan to triage them before the fixes pile up.
The end of Stack Overflow as you knew it: 64% of developers visit less for simple questions, so the company is betting on AI agents.
AI can automate status updates but the engineering manager’s real work of coaching, alignment, and translation is growing faster than AI can replace it.
Sarah Wells joins LeadDev as Editor at Large and takes over The Shift, tracking how coding agents are changing the way engineering teams build software.
Being a forward-deployed engineer (FDE) doesn’t mean you stop making mistakes. It means you’re responsible for finding, communicating, and fixing them.
Security can see the AI exploit gap but fixing it falls to engineering teams that are already balancing roadmaps, uptime, and release deadlines.
A poisoned model can pass every test you run. Here’s how data poisoning slips past engineering practices and what a secure AI lifecycle needs.
A new report suggests four in five organizations have experienced outages as a result of AI code.