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Study reveals growing technical debt in AI age
Bill Doerrfeld | February 19, 2025
The alarms are starting to sound about declining code quality in the AI age.
The 2nd annual code quality report from GitClear analyzed 211 million changed lines of code and found 10x more duplicated code than two years ago and fewer signs of code reuse than ever before. Check out my full analysis, published today on LeadDev.
I covered this study the first year it was conducted, in 2024 for DevOps.com. I think the quantitative data finally proves what many of us have been hearing anecdotally. There are gaps in AI-generated code, at least for now.
Getting into why AI-generated code isn't good enough, and how we can improve, is an area I plan to cover with a broader feature story soon — stay tuned!
What leads to a higher revenue per engineer? New benchmarking from DX reveals how areas like R&D spend, org size, and growth rate move the needle.
My latest post on The New Stack reveals how researchers pinpoint the exact sources behind chatbot responses.
The Kubernetes ecosystem has exploded with managed platforms tailored to multi-cloud, edge, on-prem, and regional deployments.
Some internal projects are too good to stay hidden. For DirectorPlus, Spotify's Pia Nilsson shares how to identify and externalize internal platforms — like they did with Backstage.
My latest feature for InfoWorld looks into the gaps surrounding AI-generated code and what leaders believe we need to improve the status quo.
New research shows LLMs outperform humans in software requirements engineering, reducing weeks of work to seconds while improving completeness by 10.2%.
Containers are designed to be isolated—that's great for security but tricky for networking. My feature with InfoWorld explores how eBPF is evolving container networking.
I recently synced with Camden Swita, Head of AI and ML Innovation at New Relic, to see how software engineers are implementing agentic AI in practice.
My feature on InfoWorld explores the state of Kubernetes usability, highlighting various advancements across workload types, support for edge and AI, and new features like observability and security.
It's up to leadership to help prioritize large-scale engineering updates that keep software running smoothly. Kent Wills, Director of Engineering at Yelp, provides insight on the latest DirectorPlus.
