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Report: Lower Performing Software Engineering Teams Benefit More from AI

An analysis of 2,000 organizations worldwide finds that historically lower performing software engineering teams are seeing nearly a 50% improvement in lead time to delivery, a four times greater rate of improvement over higher performing teams that have adopted AI coding tools. Conducted by Plandek, a provider of a software engineering intelligence (SEI) platform, the report also notes that despite that improvement, lower performing software engineering teams still deliver less than half the output per engineer compared to high-performing teams. For example, bottom-quartile teams still take more than 35 hours to merge pull requests, compared to under 21 hours for top performers, according to the report. Top teams also ship software in under 22.5 days on average, while bottom-quartile teams take more than 62 days. High-performing teams complete over two-thirds of their planned sprint work, nearly twice as much as low-performing teams, which complete less than half and regularly mi...
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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers . Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so when one DevOps professional takes on a new role, it tends to create opportunities for others. The five job postings shared this week are selected based on the company looking to hire, the vertical industry segment and naturally, the pay scale being offered. We’re also committed to providing additional insights into the state of the DevOps job market. In the meantime, for your consideration. SimplyHired.com Lenovo Morrisville, NC Senior DevOps Platform Engineer $190,000 to $230,000 LinkedIn Weights & Biases Livingston, NJ Staff DevOps Engineer $188,000 to $275,000 Indeed.com ...
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Why AI-Generated Code Is Raising the Stakes for Secrets Management

Following a $50 million funding round, GitGuardian CEO Eric Fourrier discusses why secrets security is becoming a much bigger problem in the age of AI-generated code and autonomous agents. As more organizations rush to deploy coding assistants and AI agents, Fourrier argues that the number of exposed credentials, API keys and tokens is rising just as quickly, creating new risks for DevSecOps teams already struggling to manage software supply chain security. Fourrier explains that AI agents need access to data and systems to be useful, but many organizations are still handling that access the old way by handing over secrets. That, he says, is accelerating an already serious problem. Secrets are ending up in code, collaboration tools, tickets, developer laptops and other places where they can be exposed, reused or stolen. While early concerns focused on whether large language models themselves might reveal secrets from training data, Fourrier says the bigger issue now is how humans...
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On-Call Rotation Best Practices: Reducing Burnout and Improving Response 

It’s 2:47 a.m. Your phone buzzes. An alert fires again. You acknowledge it, diagnose the issue half asleep, patch it, write a quick note and crawl back to bed. Three hours later, you’re at your desk like nothing happened.   If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. On-call duty is one of the most important — and most mismanaged responsibilities in engineering. If done right, it protects your systems and distributes the load fairly. If done wrong, it destroys team morale and drives your best engineers to the door.   According to the 2024 State of Engineering Management Report, 65% of engineers reported experiencing burnout in the past year. On-call stress is a major contributing factor, and it compounds quickly when rotations are poorly designed, alert noise is high and there’s no automation to catch the easy stuff.   This guide covers the on-call best practices that high-performing SRE and platform engineering teams actually ...
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Can QA Reignite its Purpose in the Agentic Code Generation Era?

The landscape of software development is undergoing a seismic shift, driven by the unprecedented acceleration of AI systems in code generation . This surge is not merely an incremental improvement but a fundamental transformation, substantially increasing both the volume and surface coverage of software. Developers are rapidly adopting AI into their workflow, with 84% reporting using it in 2025 , up from 76% the prior year. This statistic underscores a consensus: developers view AI as an essential catalyst for saving time and delivering superior results. Today, AI tools are responsible for crafting an estimated 41% of all code, cementing their role as indispensable co-pilots, and even pilots, in the development process. For any solution in this space to succeed, three things must hold. These are no longer optimizations but prerequisites for unlocking agentic QA: Execution must be deterministic across runs. Environments must be fully isolated and reproducible at scale. Systems m...
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Survey Sees DevOps Workflows Evolving in the Age of AI

A global survey of 820 IT decision makers and DevOps practitioners finds that half of respondents (53%) report that developers in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) are now authoring more tests directly. Conducted by Perforce, that shift also appears to be enabling a similar percentage of organizations (55%) to provide quality assurance (QA) teams with more time to focus on analytics. Perforce CTO Anjali Arora said it appears that organizations are investing more time and effort in testing to prevent suboptimal code, otherwise known as AI slop, from being incorporated into software builds. That effort, in fact, also appears to be spurring more adoption of best DevSecOps practices, with 52% of respondents reporting their software development teams are embedding secure coding practices into the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Half (50%) are also embedding security practices in code review, while 49% also extend security practices into runtime or pr...
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Codenotary Previews AI Platform to Autonomously Detect and Remediate IT Issues

Codenotary is previewing a software-as–a-service (SaaS) platform that enables artificial intelligence (AI) agents it has developed to autonomously detect, prioritize, and fix security, configuration, and performance issues. Company CEO Moshe Bar said the Codenotary Trust platform also enables continuous vulnerability tracking at both the Linux operating system and application level. Once an issue is detected, […] from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/yBg7Krm
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