Forrester Report: Improve Developer Experience With Generative AI

Improve Developer Experience with Generative AI, 2024

Software engineers spend more time today on tasks that they must do rather than on tasks that they want to do. AI-enhanced development will free up much of the time that they spend on tedious and uninteresting work, enabling more productive work on business logic and happier developers. Adoption of AI-enhanced development is not without dangers, though, and this report details ways to avoid some pitfalls.

Read this report to understand how to plan for a future with satisfied and productive developers and testers who collaborate with AI.

What you’ll learn in this report:

• The trivialities that developers spend too much time on
• How AI-enhanced development is improving developer experience now, in the mid-term, and in the long-term
• Organizational shifts to expect as developer experience becomes faster with less code
• Five principles to succeed with AI-enhanced development