And other lessons from a year of creating developer content
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026
More than 30K technologists from 169 countries have shared their thoughts with us, and now it’s time to share everything we’ve learned with you. So let’s dive into this year’s Annual Developer Survey.
Guide to Incrementals/Appeal to Developers | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023
In May 2023 over 90,000 developers responded to our annual survey about how they learn and level up, which tools they're using, and which ones they want.
Programming as Theory Building: Why Senior Developers Are More Valuable Than Ever
Peter Naur's 1985 theory of programming explains why experience matters more in the age of AI-generated code
21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google
Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.
Aspiration | Better Tools for a Better World
It's our 23rd Anniversary! Nonprofit staff, developers, capacity builders, and grassroots activists will convene at the 2026 Nonprofit Software Development Summit, 18-20 November, 2026, to share knowledge, build capacity, and collectively envision the future of free, open and equitable digital tools and practices to support social change efforts.
Less is more, more or less
In the age of AI, knowing what not to build might be the most important skill of all.
Writing Code vs. Shipping Code: Productivity Effects Across Generations of AI Coding Tools
How do the productivity effects of AI evolve across successive generations of tools, and to what extent do task-level gains ultimately translate into final output? We study these questions in the context of software development, using data on more than 100,000 GitHub developers combined with their AI usage telemetry. In a matched event study design, we find that autocomplete, interactive coding agents, and autonomous coding agents each significantly increase coding activity ("commits"), with respective cumulative effects of 40%, 140%, and 180%. These gains, however, attenuate sharply across the production hierarchy: the 180% cumulative effect falls to 50% for the number of projects, and to 30% for actual releases. This pattern is consistent with the weak-link hypothesis: the strong productivity gains from AI are attenuated by human bottlenecks in the production chain, with an estimated elasticity of substitution of 0.25 between AI and human effort, which indicates strong complementarities. We further confirm these results across four major app marketplaces, finding a moderate increase in the number of new apps but no increase in total usage. Large task-level AI productivity gains have therefore translated only partially into shipped and used software thus far.
Twelve tips for growing communities around your open source project | Ben Balter
Publishing code isn't enough. Twelve practical tips to attract users, welcome contributors, and grow a healthy open source community.
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower.
NewCrafts Paris 2025
NewCrafts Paris, an ephemeral learning ground for professional developers who care for quality code and bettering their practices.
Why the Best Companies and Developers Give Away Almost Everything They Do
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
Paths to business value in Developer Relations
DevRel is not content creation, but centred on helping developers solve problems and build better software through building real apps with real users.
The developer’s dilemma
When it comes to making money, software developers are an odd bunch. Developers produce code, and code is in high demand. At a glance, it…
progression.fyi
A collection of open source frameworks for helping designers and engineers to grow at work
It's Time To Rethink Everything by @t3dotgg