A 2025 World Economic Forum report projects that 39% of workers' core skills will change by 2030, and Samantha Brunhaver, an associate professor at Arizona State University, says adaptability is often…
Arizona State University associate professor Samantha Brunhaver, who received a National Science Foundation award in 2020 to study workplace adaptability, says engineering education fails to explain w…
A new paper by the creators of the SPACE framework, published in ACM Queue, argues that most AI coding metrics are misleading, citing a 2025 Microsoft study of over 450 engineers showing they spend on…
New research from Microsoft and academia, published in ACM Queue, finds that AI coding tools' impact is limited because developers spend only 14% of their time writing code, and gains vary widely by t…
Microsoft's largest real-world field study of AI coding agents, covering tens of thousands of engineers over four months, found that adopters of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI merged 24% more pull…
Microsoft Research published a field study showing engineers who adopted Claude Code merged 24% more pull requests, but Microsoft's Experiences and Devices division was instructed to remove the tool b…
A Microsoft Research study of tens of thousands of engineers found that AI coding agents increased merged pull request throughput by 24% over a 16-week period, but the company cancelled most of its Cl…
Microsoft researchers found that AI-coding agent adoption among its engineers spreads primarily through peer influence, not mandates, with an engineer's odds of trying GitHub's Copilot CLI rising 216%…