Is AI Making Developers More Productive Or Just Busier?

Is AI Making Developers More Productive Or Just Busier?

By Muzammil Rawjani, Founder of Software Orca, delivering mobile, custom, and AI-powered software solutions. Ask a room of engineering leaders whether their teams got faster this year, and most will say yes without hesitation. But then ask them to point to a release date pulled forward, a defect count driven down or a customer complaint…

For a productive morning routine, use these AI tools

For a productive morning routine, use these AI tools

Follow this guide What’s the story Harnessing AI can make morning routines sustainable by reducing decision fatigue, improving consistency, and incorporating healthy habits in the time available. With AI to plan, track, and modify a realistic routine, you can make your mornings more manageable. Feeding an AI assistant with details like when you wake up…

HSBC CEO Tells Staff Not To Resist AI As It Could Make Them ‘More Productive Versions Of Themselves’

HSBC CEO Tells Staff Not To Resist AI As It Could Make Them ‘More Productive Versions Of Themselves’

HSBC CEO Georges Elhedery told staff not to fight AI as it could make them “more productive ​versions of themselves”. Elhedery said he wanted to make sure employees were “not fighting us, not disenfranchised, not anxious, overwhelmed, and resisting the change.” “We all know generative AI will destroy certain jobs and will create new jobs,”…

Brits say they’d be more productive if their working hours were halved | UK | News

Brits say they’d be more productive if their working hours were halved | UK | News

Two thirds say they now finish work faster than they used to (Image: Getty) This article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. Learn more Nearly half of Brits think they could get just as much done in half the time – as new research reveals Millennials…

Half of us say we’d be more productive if working hours were halved

Half of us say we’d be more productive if working hours were halved

A study commissioned by Logitech found 45 per cent of UK employees have already implemented smart AI tools that allow them to be more productive in less time. Even more people (50% of the respondents) say that they no longer need a traditional five-day week and they would be more productive in half the time.  …

‘Tokenmaxxing’ is making developers less productive than they think

‘Tokenmaxxing’ is making developers less productive than they think

There’s an old saw in management: What you measure matters. And, typically, you get more of whatever you’re measuring. Software engineers have debated productivity metrics for decades, starting with lines of code. But as the new generation of AI coding agents delivers more code than ever, what their managers ought to be measuring is less…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to engineers in the company: You are not productive if you don’t use a lot of …

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to engineers in the company: You are not productive if you don’t use a lot of …

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has a message for the company’s engineers. According to the 63-year-old chief executive of the US-based chipmaker Nvidia, engineers who do not make extensive use of AI tools are not productive. This highlights how central token-based computing has become to the company’s workflow. Speaking on the All-In Podcast during Nvidia GTC…

‘AI brain fry’ is real — and it’s making workers more exhausted, not more productive, new study finds

‘AI brain fry’ is real — and it’s making workers more exhausted, not more productive, new study finds

If you’re one of the early AI adopters, maybe your brain is totally fried. Take Francesco Bonacci, a software engineer and founder of Cua AI, who warned of “vibe coding paralysis” last month. In an X post, he described AI’s ability to complete incredible taskloads, leaving workers time to generate new ideas they can then…