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Lawrence Hecht

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 19/01/2026
After making dozens of prototypes with AI coding agents, here's what I think: human developers are still essential In fact, instead of taking jobs, this new class of software tools may make workers busier than ever. I wrote about my experience for Ars Technica: arstechnica.com/information-...
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10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents
Opinion: As software power tools, AI agents may make people busier than ever before.
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 30/10/2025
Companies want to repatriate SOME workloads to private clouds but are lack in-house skills to manage these cloud environments. NOTE, they are focused apps that have 1) security/compliance needs; 2) are data intensive; and 3) are integrated with other systems.DevOps.com buff.ly/ARKHKMb
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 20/09/2025
However, the battle to tame tool sprawl is making progress, according to a new survey of 1,700 IT teams by New Relic. By @hjoslyn.bsky.social and @lawrencehecht.info
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Only 27% of Organizations Have Full-Stack Observability, Says Report
However, the battle to tame tool sprawl is making progress, according to a new survey of 1,700 IT teams by New Relic.
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 20/09/2025
Only 27% of Organizations Have Full-Stack Observability, Says Report
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Only 27% of Organizations Have Full-Stack Observability, Says Report
However, the battle to tame tool sprawl is making progress, according to a new survey of 1,700 IT teams by New Relic.
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 02/09/2025
Since 2023, software engineers (developers) have been less keen to leave their Big Tech jobs. Note that of these companies, only Microsoft has seen a slight decline in total dev headcount. buff.ly/QC8zuUS
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 17/08/2025
What’s slowing organizations down? Wonky workflows, slow failure recovery and scaling challenges are among the culprits, according to a new report by Temporal. By @hjoslyn.bsky.social and @lawrencehecht.info
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Only 1 in 4 IT Teams Report Smooth Workflows, Says Survey
What’s slowing organizations down? Wonky workflows, slow failure recovery and scaling challenges are among the culprits, according to a new report by Temporal.
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 04/08/2025
78% of this year's Stack Overflow developer survey use AI tools in the development process, up from 62% last year. We look at the key stats. By @lawrencehecht.info
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23% of Devs Regularly Use AI Agents, per Stack Overflow Survey
78% of this year's Stack Overflow developer survey use AI tools in the development process, up from 62% last year. We look at the key stats.
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 30/07/2025
23% of Devs Regularly Use AI Agents, per Stack Overflow Survey. AI agents have gained users because 70% of developers who have used one believe it has reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. buff.ly/W2gXKvu #StackOverflowSurvey
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 21/07/2025
✨ Author Spotlight: @jlwallen.bsky.social ✨ From teaching to mastering Linux (by accident!) He's dedicated decades to demystifying open source. Beyond his expertise, Jack's a Renaissance man — a novelist, actor, athlete, and a passionate advocate for Linux's rise on the desktop.
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 15/07/2025
The larger the company, the more likely a developer is to be using GitHub Copilot. This is does not hold true for other AI-coding tools that do not have a sales force to target enterprise-size customers. buff.ly/4AnaO1F cc @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 09/07/2025
59% of organizations have established a role or office tasked with AI governance, according to a recent survey by @GradFlowTech and Pacific AI. The figure goes down to 36% for companies with <501 employees. buff.ly/rhYcLV2
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2025 AI Governance Survey - Pacific AI
As artificial intelligence systems become increasingly integral to business operations and societal functions, establishing effective AI governance is paramount for managing risks, ensuring ethical…
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 23/06/2025
GitOps is becoming the preferred deployment methodology within the Kubernetes community, with ArgoCD being the tool of choice, @octopus.com has found. By @lawrencehecht.info and @joabj.bsky.social
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Survey: ArgoCD Leaves Flux (And Other GitOps Platforms) Behind
GitOps is becoming the preferred deployment methodology within the Kubernetes community, with ArgoCD being the tool of choice, Octopus Deploy has found.
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 23/06/2025
this chart shows how technologists think different job roles are being impacted by AI.
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 23/06/2025
AI-specific jobs are on the upswing, according to a new survey of tech talent by the @linuxfoundation.org. By @hjoslyn.bsky.social and @lawrencehecht.info
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AI and Tech Jobs: More Evidence That Panic Isn’t Justified
AI-specific jobs are on the upswing, according to a new survey of tech talent by the Linux Foundation.
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 23/06/2025
The outlook for tech jobs IS NOT bleak. In fact, tech employment is increasing, not decreasing because of AI. Here are 2 articles @hjoslyn.bsky.social Heather Joslyn and I worked on: thenewstack.io/ai-and-tech-... thenewstack.io/tech-hiring-...
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AI and Tech Jobs: More Evidence That Panic Isn’t Justified
AI-specific jobs are on the upswing, according to a new survey of tech talent by the Linux Foundation.
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 09/05/2025
A few more conclusions about web devs and AI: —59% agree that AI is an integral part of their workflow —AI-generated code requires refactoring. 76% percent of developers have to rewrite or refactor at least half of the outputted code before it’s ready to be used.
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 09/05/2025
Claude, Supermaven and Cursor users are much more likely to say they had a positive experience than users of other AI-based developer tools. These are just some of the many findings we uncovered in “The 2025 State of Web Dev AI” report. buff.ly/8YvrUrY
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 30/04/2025
Almost half (48%) of all robot.txt tokens on websites totally restrict what content can be accessed in '24, that's up 23% just from just 23% in '23 This means that the open web is being destroyed by website owners that are blocking content from scrapers feeding LLM & other AI models buff.ly/uhK3hpx
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 09/04/2025
Big drop in fear about TikTok's impact on US national security. This is putting pressure on hardliners to make a deal with China or risk backlash -- and that's not even considering the trade war issue.
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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Anyone who watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off was introduced to this historical event. Admittedly, not with the greatest of enthusiasm. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuOH...
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Hawley–Smoot Tariff - Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
YouTube video by International School History
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 31/03/2025
Observability and monitoring — not security — is the most cited challenge when moving ML models into production, according to a new survey. buff.ly/RG36xnQ
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 20/03/2025
— Assessing public cloud costs is less challenging for enterprises migrating workloads vs 2024 — 21% of workloads in public cloud have been repatriated, per those at 1,000+ employee companies. For every 5 workloads that have migrated to the public cloud, 1 has been repatriated buff.ly/vUIlTFb
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 19/03/2025
Cloud sustainability stats: — 36% of survey already have a defined sustainability initiative that includes carbon footprint tracking of cloud use. Another 21% plan to launch one within the next year. — 57% prioritize cloud costs vs sustainability ...
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 12/03/2025
While lower than last year, 52% of Java devs say their company is adding new Java developers this year. It seems as if they focused on hiring rather than using dev tools to supplement the workforce.
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 12/03/2025
Documentation and Communication Challenges Are Leading Obstacles to Developer Productivity thenewstack.io/ai-tools-now...
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 20/02/2025
61% of consulting company clients believe they know more about their industry than consultants do. That's a sharp contrast from only 31% that felt that way when Source did the same survey 10 years. www.sourceglobalresearch.com/blog-post/cl...
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Towards Data Science @towardsdatascience.com · 04/02/2025
We hope you’ll join us for this exciting new chapter. Your support means everything to us, and we’re excited to show you the future of Towards Data Science. Read our full announcement ➡️ towardsdatascience.com/towards-data…
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 31/01/2025
A good article about #agentic AI in #AppDev and #DevOps
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The Agentic AI Revolution in AppDev and DevOps - theCUBEResearch
Agentic AI and AI assistants are transforming application development and DevOps. Learn about their impact on productivity, modernization.
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 30/01/2025
ICYMI: Experts do not think migration of workloads to private and on-premises clouds will outpace the movement to public clouds.
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What's Ahead for AI-Assisted Coding, Open Source and More
The New Stack reached out to more than 120 industry experts about some of the hottest topics in software development. Here's what they had to say.
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 30/01/2025
ICYMI: AI-assisted development will challenge developers as they review the quality of the code generated and integrate tools into their workflows.
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What's Ahead for AI-Assisted Coding, Open Source and More
The New Stack reached out to more than 120 industry experts about some of the hottest topics in software development. Here's what they had to say.
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Kate Holterhoff, PhD @kateholterhoff.com · 30/01/2025
Wrote up my thoughts on @github.com npm and the JavaScript package registry startups @vlt.sh vsr & @deno.land JSR. There's a lot going on around JS/TS, Node.js package management and registries—and a whole lot of history. redmonk.com/kholterhoff/...
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Is npm Enough? Why Startups are Coming after this JavaScript Package Registry
There’s been significant disruption in the JavaScript package management space recently. While npm continues to be the de facto JavaScript 1) package registry and 2) package manager used in Node.js ru...
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 29/01/2025
ICYMI: Despite long-term optimism, there is significant concern that many internal AI agent projects will be abandoned in 2025, our survey participants said.
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What's Ahead for AI-Assisted Coding, Open Source and More
The New Stack reached out to more than 120 industry experts about some of the hottest topics in software development. Here's what they had to say.
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 29/01/2025
Dev productivity or experience is regularly assessed at least quarterly at 53% of companies that track these metrics. More charts at buff.ly/4h12vgE
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 28/01/2025
"Trusted Data" as a prerequisite for AI growth seems to be a theme. 62% of data & analytics professionals surveyed by Precisely in '24 said "Governance of Data Used for AI" is inhibiting the progress of their organization's AI initiatives. www.precisely.com/resource-cen...
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 26/01/2025
16% of orgs that use developer environments have standardized on one tool throughout their organization. Only 36% of developers said their org allows devs to have full control over their development environments. Based on a @coderhq & @SlashDataHQ study. thenewstack.io/tailwind-css...
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 26/01/2025
Platform Engineering and Developer Platform Components: from a post by @torstenvolk.bsky.social
Platform Engineering and Developer Platform Components
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 26/01/2025
16% of orgs that use developer environments have standardized on one tool throughout their organization. Only 36% of developers said their org allows devs to have full control over their development environments. Based on a @coderhq & @SlashDataHQ study. thenewstack.io/tailwind-css...
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 24/01/2025
Ignore the anecdotal stories you’re hearing about AI workloads driving a migration from the cloud to on-premises and private cloud environments. www.datawrapper.de/_/mdaro/?v=2 The full article is here: thenewstack.io/cloud-deploy...
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Fewer AI Users Deploy Models Into Production | Created with Datawrapper
Where do you most often deploy your models into production?
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 24/01/2025
Cloud Deployment of AI Models Jumps, Says Data Science Study. buff.ly/40vUHMT
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Cloud Deployment of Models Jumped Among Those Focused on Data Science, ML and AI | Created with Datawrapper
Where do you most often deploy your models into production?
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 18/01/2025
React Native vs. Flutter: Despite Flutter’s dominance among a small niche of mobile developers, React Native edges Flutter among a broader group of developers that use cross-platform mobile frameworks. www.datawrapper.de/_/cjdaK/?v=4
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React Native and Flutter Both Widely Used for Cross-platform Mobile Development | Created with Datawrapper
Which cross-platform mobile frameworks do you use?
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Mark Boyd @markboyd.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
To create true partnerships and enable collaboration in a digital ecosystem requires interoperability, but it is difficult to know how each stakeholder is working on this. This year at Platformable, we want to support organisations to build interoperability toolkits: platformable.com/blog/interop...
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Interoperability toolkits: An overview
An interoperability toolkit is a collection of data governance resources that support ecosystem participation, improve communication between ecosystem stakeholders, and enable partners to more easily ...
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Richard Stiennon @stiennon.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Breaking news! finance.yahoo.com/news/harvest...
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IT-Harvest Launches HarvestIQ.ai: Revolutionizing Cybersecurity Insights with AI-Driven Assistants
IT-Harvest, the premier data-driven industry analyst firm, is excited to announce the launch of HarvestIQ.ai, a groundbreaking platform featuring two cutting-edge AI assistants designed to redefine ho...
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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Interesting.
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Mark Boyd @markboyd.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
At Platformable, we’ve just released our 2025 business plan mapping how we plan to continue supporting the development of open digital ecosystems. Please join us on this journey as collaborators, commentators, clients, or co-conspirators! platformable.com/blog/platfor...
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The Platformable Business Plan 2025
An overview of Platformable's business plan for 2025
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Martin Stein @martinstein.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Survey Results from YouGot.us about AI Agents in Production: 324 AI Agent insiders share their experiences and use cases. Part I is now online and free. Great job, @thestarclimber.bsky.social and @mlopscommunity.bsky.social #MLops #AI #Agents #Production #DataScience
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YouGot.us | AI Done Right
Yougot.Us connects business objectives with the transformative potential of AI. Partnering with AI professionals in product, operations, marketing, and Sales, he leads a vibrant community focused on d...
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 12/01/2025
“But chief executives of firms that missed analysts' earnings forecasts were more likely to show signs of depression.”
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 10/01/2025
Not in this article is a possibly disturbing stat: 31% of companies that track #DevEx or productivity say that this information is used to make HR decisions. Without nuance and understanding, these metrics can be counterproductive.
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 10/01/2025
Only 35% of developer productivity/developer experience engineers actually follow and stay informed of the latest trends and discussions related to developer experience and developer productivity. Only, 670 (4% of survey) respondents say they have a dev prod or DevEx role. buff.ly/4h12vgE
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Developer Productivity: Who’s Tracking It? Not Many
Forty percent of managers in JetBrains' latest survey said their organizations measure neither developer productivity nor developer experience.
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 07/01/2025
My latest article is based on a qualitative research project where we asked "experts" about their enterprise tech predictions for 2025 on these topics: - Open Source and Competitiveness - AI Agents - AI’s Impact on Developer Processes - Cloud and Data Infrastructure thenewstack.io/whats-ahead-...
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What's Ahead for AI-Assisted Coding, Open Source and More
The New Stack reached out to more than 120 industry experts about some of the hottest topics in software development. Here's what they had to say.
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 23/12/2024
More developers are performing tests, going from85% last year to 95% in 2024. The proportion of developers who are doing unit tests, integration tests and end-to-end tests also rose. However, only 18% are using artificial intelligence in the testing software they use. thenewstack.io/developers-t...
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Developers Testing More, JetBrains Study Finds
Also: Weaviate launches a hosted embedding service for AI apps, Tabnine checks licenses on AI-generated code, and Gemini Flash updates.
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