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On September 3, UNC Charlotte detailed an accepted-manuscript study in which remote participants completed no fewer tasks than office-based participants, yet office workers assigned remote teammates contributed less to the team. The university’s September 3 research briefing says the office participants reduced their contributions because they expected their remote partners to contribute less.

The largest empirical study to date on AI agents in software development reveals a paradox. Faros AI analyzed two years of telemetry from 22,000 developers across more than 4,000 teams globally. The report’s title says it plainly, “Acceleration Whiplash”: push hard with AI assistance and you will hit a quality wall sooner or later. More…