5 papers
Adoption and Impact of Command-Line AI Coding Agents: A Study of Microsoft's Early 2026 Rollout of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI
Emerson Murphy-Hill, Jenna Butler, Alexandra Savelieva
Organizations rolling out agentic command line tools like Anthropic's Claude Code and GitHub's Copilot CLI need to know who will try them, who will keep using them, and whether the…
Product Manager Practices for Delegating Work to Generative AI: "Accountability must not be delegated to non-human actors"
Mara Ulloa, Jenna L. Butler, Sankeerti Haniyur +4
Generative AI (GenAI) is changing the nature of knowledge work, particularly for Product Managers (PMs) in software development teams. While much software engineering research has…
"Maybe We Need Some More Examples:" Individual and Team Drivers of Developer GenAI Tool Use
Courtney Miller, Rudrajit Choudhuri, Mara Ulloa +6
Despite the widespread availability of generative AI tools in software engineering, developer adoption remains uneven. This unevenness is problematic because it hampers productivit…
Identifying Factors Contributing to Bad Days for Software Developers: A Mixed Methods Study
Ike Obi, Jenna Butler, Sankeerti Haniyur +3
Software development is a dynamic activity that requires engineers to work effectively with tools, processes, and collaborative teams. As a result, the presence of friction can sig…
Dear Diary: A randomized controlled trial of Generative AI coding tools in the workplace
Jenna Butler, Jina Suh, Sankeerti Haniyur +1
Generative AI coding tools are relatively new, and their impact on developers extends beyond traditional coding metrics, influencing beliefs about work and developers' roles in the…