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Lawrence Hecht

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Analyst sharing open data and sharing insight about enterprise IT, tech policy, surveys, economics.

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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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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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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
75% of the survey said they have AI policies about what is allowed. Beyond that, monitoring AI for misuse/accuracy/drift and project risk evaluation are the most common AI governance efforts.
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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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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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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
Of the six obstacles asked about, “insufficient developer tools” got the fewest votes (24%). No wonder fewer companies are adding budget for this. See the chart below, that shows only 34% say their company is increasing their budget for Java dev tools.
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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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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
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 · 10/01/2025
~40% of companies track dev experience/productivity. At 67% of those companies, team leaders are responsible for this, which can cause coordination problems.
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 12/11/2024
ICYMI: For those at #KubeCon, note that picking stack components became the top Kubernetes pain point for 48% surveyed in 2024, up from 29% when the survey was conducted in 2023. thenewstack.io/kubernetes-4...
What challenges does your organization face with running Kubernetes in production?
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 12/11/2024
ICYMI: Codium & Perplexity are the only 2 AI tools asked about in last year’ #StackOverflow survey that actually saw increased use in 2024. GitHub Copilot, WolframAlpha and Tabine declined significantly. thenewstack.io/salary-press...
How Adoption by Developers of Some AI Tools Has Changed 

Which AI-powered search and developer tools did you use regularly over the past year, and which do you want to work with over the next year? Select all that apply.
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 10/11/2024
ICYMI: Awareness of OpenSSF scorecards rose dramatically in the last year (from 28% to 40% of surveyed maintainers). Among this group, 30% have already started aligning to its standards. Is the glass half full or half empty? t.co/CR4H4VTeEO
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 30/07/2024
Update on Web Framework Adoption: Next.js and FastAPI Adoption Grew; Vue.js and Node.js Usage Dropped thenewstack.io/salary-press...
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 30/07/2024
Codium & Perplexity are the only 2 AI tools asked about in last year’ #StackOverflow survey that actually saw increased use in 2024. GitHub Copilot, WolframAlpha and Tabine declined significantly. thenewstack.io/salary-press...
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 23/04/2024
Here's another takeaway: More Than Half of New Technical Hires Leave Within 6 Months. Using the mid-points of each range, we can estimate that 52% of new technical hires leave (fired, quit, etc.) within 6 months of being hired. This has gotten worse vs last year.
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 23/04/2024
Fewer companies are paying for Tech Conference attendance and tuition reimbursement as ways to train their technical staff. thenewstack.io/tech-hiring-...
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 02/04/2024
ICYMI: 55% Save No More Than 3 Hours a Week When Utilizing AI-powered Coding. Results are similar to a survey JetBrains conducted of users of its AI Assistant. www.datawrapper.de/_/eqEd4/
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 06/03/2024
Since RHEL licensing became more restricted, there was a noticeable drop in usage of both Fedora and #opensource OpenShift. #Ubuntu appears to benefit in terms of Linux distributions. thenewstack.io/open-source-...
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 04/03/2024
More ruse users worry about its future: In 2023, 82% have concerns about Rust, up from, 70% in 2022. Concern about project governance's ability to scale to meet the community’s size/requirement almost doubled, going from 15% to 28%. thenewstack.io/rust-on-the-...
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Lawrence Hecht @lawrencehecht.info · 27/02/2024
ICYMI: #zig usage among surveyed #WebAssembly users skyrocketed in 2023, going from 10% to 25% compared to the 2022 survey. Those wanting to use Zig to some extent with Wasm jumped from 28% to 46%. thenewstack.io/whos-leading...
Languages used at least occasionally when developing applications using Wasm
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