Article summary: Is AI code sabotaging its own ROI case?

Is AI code sabotaging its own ROI case? is an article on leaddev.com where tech journalist Bill Doerrfeld interviews Charity Majors, CTO of Honeycomb.

Some summary notes below, but the TLDR is that the true value of AI in software development isn’t just writing code faster, but accelerating the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Ownership is more important than authorship. Keep focussing on the basics of SLOs, stress-testing, canary deployments, feature flags etc. Leaning on Platform Engineering and AIOps to augment operational work. Real ROI won’t come from generating more code faster – it will come from streamlining the lifecycle around it.

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