Survey Surfaces High DevOps Burnout Rates Despite AI Advances
DevOps.com, Monday, July 15th, 2024
A survey of 604 software developers and engineering professionals finds that while 61% work for organizations that are employing artificial intelligence (AI) to build software to some degree nearly two-thirds (65%) still experience burnout.
In fact, after maintaining a high-performing team (47%), burnout (41%) is the second most often challenge, survey respondents cited.
Conducted by Kickstand Research on behalf of Jellyfish, a provider of a platform for managing software engineering teams, the survey finds that among organizations that have adopted AI, a full 94% said it positively influenced their team's productivity, with 81% reporting AI increases the quality of code.
A total of 84% also said AI frees up time to focus on high-value activities, the survey finds.