Leveraging AI to Significantly Increase Software Developer Productivity

January 10, 2022

Tech media publisher readwrite recently published an article authored by Phase Change President Steve Brothers about how AI can be used to vastly improve a developer’s ability to efficiently identify code that requires modification or modernization.

The article, Leveraging AI to Significantly Increase Software Developer Productivity, makes the case for thinking about codebases differently and using AI to help developers quickly and efficiently find relevant code.as knowledge repositories.

Developers new to software applications often require months or even years of on-the-job training to avoid making dangerous mistakes and putting critical systems at risk. With today's tools, developers spend roughly 75% of their time searching through and reading source code to identify the relevant code that produces the functionality that requires modification or modernization.

By using AI tools to analyze source code and discover each and every one of its behaviors at machine speed, the code repository can become a knowledge repository that represents source code in the same way that humans think about the world, in cause and effect. The AI interacts and collaborates with developers to disregard code unrelated to the behavior and narrows down the codebase to the specific code that needs to change, without searching through and understanding all of the surrounding code.

Read the entire article here.

Why is software developer onboarding so difficult, and how can I minimize productivity decline? — blog post

January 5, 2017

Your development teams and projects lose expertise every time software engineers depart – taking all of their domain and system knowledge with them.

It can take months for newcomers to become productive and years to become proficient. Bringing incoming developers up to speed distracts the whole team and results in significant project delays.

How can you transfer the domain and system knowledge to new engineers the day they walk in the door so your development teams remain productive and adept – even when critical employees leave unexpectedly?

Learn more about the overarching problem of onboarding newcomer developers in the Phase Change white paper; "As industry growth and turnover soar, new developer onboarding issues wreck productivity and jeopardize projects."

The paper reveals the full extent of the problem and why the influx of newcomer developers – both neophytes and professionals – combined with aging technology will result in a serious industry problem in the next 10 years.

You will discover the challenges newcomers face when joining new organizations and teams, learn the techniques developers use to absorb software applications, and realize why today's limited application-comprehension tools are woefully inadequate.

Then the paper introduces Phase Change’s science-based technology and artificial intelligence, which preserves the domain and system knowledge encoded in your applications no matter how many engineers leave.

And by retaining that knowledge, and facilitating developer-software interaction, Phase Change’s technology and AI agents will enable the system to educate newcomer developers – radically reducing their ramp-up time and drastically increasing team productivity.

Not only will your newcomers benefit, but you also will discover a new way of thinking about software development that will serve your entire organization.

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