Most software developers that I know, especially the best ones, loathe worthless tasks. This is probably true of most people who strive to do what they do to the best of their ability, but I’m not ...

Discover the best software development project management tools, tested for agile teams, DevOps pipelines, and enterprise delivery. Working in software development requires a tool that can handle the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gary Drenik is a writer covering AI, analytics and innovation. The role of the software developer is undergoing a significant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In one recent study, AI hampered the productivity of software developers. (Getty Images) AI tools don’t always boost productivity.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Sep 15, 2025, 11:50am EDT Two business people looking at ...

In A Nutshell A new study found that even the best AI models stumbled on roughly one in four structured coding tasks, raising ...

It’s like a new telling of the “Tortoise and the Hare”: A group of experienced software engineers entered into an experiment in which they were tasked with completing some of their work with the help ...

Software engineering is among the many fields being changed with the fast progress in large language models (LLMs). In a few years, LLMs have evolved from advanced code autocomplete tools to AI agents ...

AI tools don’t always boost productivity. A recent study from Model Evaluation and Threat Research found that when 16 software developers were asked to perform tasks using AI tools, they took longer ...

Is the future of software development an AI-powered IDE? GitHub’s floating the idea. Ahead of its annual GitHub Universe conference in San Francisco early this fall, GitHub announced Copilot Workspace ...

At Meta’s LlamaCon AI event, tech industry execs described how quickly AI is transforming coding — with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg predicting AI could handle half of all software development within a ...

It can autonomously plan and execute thousand-step tasks. It can build and deploy entire software projects all by itself. It can research and fix bugs 7x better than OpenAI's GPT-4, and it trains and ...