{"id":219371,"date":"2026-03-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/why-developers-using-ai-are-working-longer-hours\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T08:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:10:12","slug":"why-developers-using-ai-are-working-longer-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/why-developers-using-ai-are-working-longer-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Why developers using AI are working longer hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/why-developers-using-ai-are-working-longer-hours\/\">Why developers using AI are working longer hours<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/why-developers-using-ai-are-working-longer-hours\/\">https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/why-developers-using-ai-are-working-longer-hours\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-03 08:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.scientificamerican.com\">www.scientificamerican.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-block=\"sciam\/paragraph\"><span class=\"dropcap\">S<\/span>oftware engineering was supposed to be artificial intelligence\u2019s easiest win. Today companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Google have all released AI products geared specifically to coding. And a survey of nearly 5,000 technology professionals released in a report last year by Google\u2019s DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team found that 90 percent of respondents said they were using AI at work\u2014with more than 80 percent saying the technology had boosted their productivity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-block=\"sciam\/paragraph\">\u201cWe see a large majority of folks that are relying on AI to get their job done, at least a moderate amount, which is really fascinating,\u201d says Nathen Harvey, who leads the DORA team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-block=\"sciam\/paragraph\">AI can generate code for everything from Web and mobile apps to data management tools. It often automates some of the tedious elements of the job, such as building testing infrastructure and updating software to run on new devices and systems. In some cases, even inexperienced developers can create working prototypes simply by describing their intentions to AI systems in a process often called \u201cvibe coding,\u201d a term coined by OpenAI co-founder and researcher Andrej Karpathy. But writing code is only part of the job; developers still have to verify that it does what it\u2019s supposed to and fix it if it fails.<\/p>\n<h2>On supporting science journalism<\/h2>\n<p>If you&#8217;re enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-block=\"sciam\/paragraph\">Another finding from the DORA report was that while individual coder effectiveness appeared to rise with the use of AI, so, too, did \u201csoftware delivery instability\u201d\u2014an assessment of how frequently code needed to be rolled back or patched after release to address unexpected issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-block=\"sciam\/paragraph\">\u201cAs you use more AI, you\u2019re more likely to roll back changes that you\u2019ve pushed into production,\u201d Harvey says. \u201cAnd this,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/why-developers-using-ai-are-working-longer-hours\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why developers using AI are working longer hours https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/why-developers-using-ai-are-working-longer-hours\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-03 08:00:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.scientificamerican.com\/dam\/m\/29f9eb307605e45b\/original\/Guy-working-late-at-his-computer.jpg?m=1772499587.732&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219373,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219371\/revisions\/219373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}