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Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI (techcrunch.com)
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[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 23 points 11 hours ago

From The Software Quality and Productivity Crisis Executives Won’t Address (via on Lemmy)

Executives aren’t ignorant. They have the data. They commission the surveys. They attend the conferences where CTOs present their concerns. They know that:

  • 91% of CTOs cite technical debt as the biggest challenge
  • 75% of projects are expected to fail
  • 69% of developers lose significant time to inefficiencies
  • Only 39% of projects meet success criteria
  • The recommended 15–20% investment in technical debt management yields better long-term returns than crisis spending

Yet they choose:

  • Not to allocate recommended budgets for technical debt management
  • Not to make quality a strategic priority despite CTOs’ and developers’ concerns
  • Not to mention these challenges in public communications to shareholders
  • To celebrate AI productivity gains whilst developers report record inefficiency
  • To focus on the next hype cycle (AI) rather than address fundamental problems

This isn’t a failure of knowledge. It looks to me like a failure of courage and integrity. A failure of the very concept of leadership.