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One Developer Is All You Need: A Case Study of an AI-Augmented One-Person Squad in a Brownfield Enterprise
Marcelo Vilas Boas, Gustavo Pinto, Edward Roberto Monteiro +2
AI tools are enabling engineers to absorb roles previously distributed across cross-functional squads, yet there is little structured evidence on how to design or evaluate such a o…
Affirmative Hackathon for Software Developers with Disabilities: An Industry Initiative
Thayssa Rocha, Nicole Davila, Rafaella Vaccari +5
People with disabilities (PWD) often encounter several barriers to becoming employed. A growing body of evidence in software development highlights the benefits of diversity and in…
Developer Experiences with a Contextualized AI Coding Assistant: Usability, Expectations, and Outcomes
Gustavo Pinto, Cleidson de Souza, Thayssa Rocha +3
In the rapidly advancing field of artificial intelligence, software development has emerged as a key area of innovation. Despite the plethora of general-purpose AI assistants avail…
Lessons from Building StackSpot AI: A Contextualized AI Coding Assistant
Gustavo Pinto, Cleidson de Souza, João Batista Neto +3
With their exceptional natural language processing capabilities, tools based on Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Co-Pilot have swiftly become indispensable resources i…