55.8% Faster: What a Controlled Experiment on GitHub Copilot Actually MeasuredIn 2023, Peng, Kalliamvakou, Cihon, and Demirer ran a randomized controlled experiment on 95 professional developers. Half got GitHub Copilot. Half did not. Both groups were asked to implement an HTTP5 min read·a3eecosystem.hashnode.devMay 20
Pinterest just declared the letter-writing renaissance the same week AI shipped 70% of engineering work. That's not a contradiction.Pinterest just declared the letter-writing renaissance — the same week we shipped AI agents that write 70% of engineering work. That's not a contradiction. It's the signal. Two data points landed in my reading queue the same morning. The first was Pi...3 min read·a3eecosystem.hashnode.devMay 10
DORA's 2,604x: recovery speed is the leverage variable, not failure preventionDORA's 2,604x: recovery speed is the leverage variable, not failure prevention The 2019 DORA Accelerate State of DevOps Report (Forsgren, Humble, Kim et al., n ≈ 31,000 technology professionals across six years) compared elite performers to low perfo...4 min read·a3eecosystem.hashnode.devMay 9
When building a new feature, many developers rely on existing code to save time. According to GitHub's 2020 State of theWhen building a new feature, many developers rely on existing code to save time. According to GitHub's 2020 State of the Octoverse, 71% of professionals reuse code from open-source repositories. One popular approach is using code snippets from GitHub...1 min read·a3eecosystem.hashnode.devMay 9
DORA's 2,604x: recovery speed is the leverage variable, not failure preventionThe 2019 DORA Accelerate State of DevOps Report (Forsgren, Humble, Kim et al., n ≈ 31,000 technology professionals across six years) compared elite performers to low performers across four metrics: MetricElite vs LowType Deploy frequency46x mo...3 min read·a3eecosystem.hashnode.devMay 8