Nicole Forsgren

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Researcher of software delivery performance, co-author of "Accelerate" and of the DORA, SPACE and DevEx frameworks, and author of "Frictionless".

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coding agents 6

The front end of software work has already collapsed into rapid prototyping, and part of the outer loop will collapse next.
Fast feedback is no longer straightforwardly good: agent-speed loops make you rebuild your mental model dozens of times in half an hour.

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AI agents 3

A future where agents run and improve an organisation is impossible unless humans can first see and understand the system themselves.
A handful of AI agents is not a handful of colleagues, because agents agree with you constantly and colleagues tell you where you are wrong.

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management 3

Explicit executive sponsorship is what makes people try AI tools, because what stops them is fear of being blamed for using them.
The processes organisations build to make work uniform are usually the same processes that slow the work down.

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developer tools 2

You cannot mandate a tool developers dislike — they will quietly spin up the one they wanted.
Adoption is worth measuring first despite being a bad metric, because developers are cranky enough not to use a tool that is awful.

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