What is it?
Augmented-AI allows software engineers to create and maintain applications using AI technologies to help improve their personal productivity. The AI tools help the developer create the code directly; analyse the code to fix bugs and improve the code; generate documentation automatically and improve automated testing.
An Example?
One example of Augmented-AI is Github Copilot. This product has been trained on billions of lines of code and can increase developer productivity by an impressive 55%. More importantly, the research shows that developers reported between 60-75% improvement in job fulfilment and helped preserve their mental energy. The research method is solid and worth a read if you manage application developers.
Organisational benefits
A key benefit is that It will help reduce the development time for applications and allow organisations to get to market faster. If you develop software within your organisation and have a cycle time of, say, six months then this technology could help you get your cycle time to between 3 and 4 months.
What’s in it for me?
However, if you are a developer then you get a lot of features for your money freeing up your time for the fun stuff.
How long will this take?
Gartner are reporting that it will take 2-5 years for this technology to reach the plateau phase where it will become ‘business as normal’. So, to imbed the adoption of Augmented-AI software development tools across the majority of organisation may well take 2 to 5 years. Through a change programme this could be reduced to between six and 18 months
