WeAreDevelopers Logo WeAreDevelopers
Sign in
For You LIVE
World Congress 2024 • Aug 20, 2024

Developer Experience in the Age of AI

Rajeev Rajan

Atlassian discovered that tech debt and operational noise are the ultimate workflow killers. See how they use AI to eliminate mundane chores and restore developer joy.

Pause
Mute Enter Fullscreen
#1 about 3 min

Addressing developer productivity challenges with internal tooling

Recognizing workflow friction and organizing a dedicated unit to enhance internal engineering performance.

#2 about 3 min

Implementing a developer productivity framework and measuring output

How dedicated hack time and infrastructure improvements accelerated pull request cycle times and issue resolution.

#3 about 3 min

Measuring developer satisfaction to enable creative engineering flow

Why quantitative metrics must be paired with regular qualitative surveys to eliminate workflow friction and restore creative joy.

#4 about 4 min

Managing the architectural complexity introduced by artificial intelligence

Acknowledging that generative toolsets increase absolute code volume and require stronger infrastructure management practices.

#5 about 5 min

Identifying core engineering chores dragging down developer experience

Using global survey data to identify technical debt, missing documentation, and constant context switching as the biggest obstacles to engineering impact.

#6 about 4 min

Automating technical debt resolution and code generation workflows

Deploying artificial intelligence agents to remove stale feature flags, improve test coverage, and continuously convert ticket requirements into pull requests.

#7 about 2 min

Unifying architectural documentation search through generative language models

Reducing cognitive overload by exposing cross-platform design files, chat histories, and code changes in a single semantic search interface.

#8 about 2 min

Protecting deep work time by automating incident alert triage

Grouping noisy production alerts and building automatic root cause analysis flows to keep engineers focused on building products instead of firefighting.

#9 about 3 min

Shaping the future of generative abstraction in software engineering

Guiding the integration of modern tooling to augment human creativity rather than attempting to replace raw engineering roles.

Matching moments

1:55 min

Shifting developer workloads and realistic AI productivity gains

Chris Heilmann +2 · LIVE

1:21 min

Using artificial intelligence to reimagine developer experience

Alexander Trusheim Alexander Trusheim +1 · WWC 2025

1:23 min

Measuring developer productivity, efficiency metrics, and team happiness

Neel Sundaresan Neel Sundaresan +1 · WWC Europe 2026

4:08 min

Evaluating AI productivity across the software development funnel

Alejandro Saucedo Alejandro Saucedo · WWC 2025

1:31 min

Addressing developer burnout and the impact of artificial intelligence

Pauline Pagliaro Pauline Pagliaro · WWC 2025

5:16 min

Motivations for adopting AI to enhance developer productivity

More from World Congress 2024

Beyond the Hype: Real-World AI Strategies Panel thumbnail
24:07
10 months ago

Beyond the Hype: Real-World AI Strategies Panel

Mike Butcher, Jürgen Müller, Katrin Lehmann, Tobias Regenfuss

Carl Lapierre - Exploring Advanced Patterns in Retrieval-Augmented Generation thumbnail
21:17
almost 2 years ago

Carl Lapierre - Exploring Advanced Patterns in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Carl Lapierre

Coding an Immersive Copilot using Unity / .NET and Azure OpenAI! thumbnail
31:50
almost 2 years ago

Coding an Immersive Copilot using Unity / .NET and Azure OpenAI!

Zaid Zaim

Building a diverse tech company: The power of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging thumbnail
29:43
almost 2 years ago

Building a diverse tech company: The power of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

Sue Quackenbush

Dapr in Practice thumbnail
24:08
almost 2 years ago

Dapr in Practice

marcklefter

Minimising the Carbon Footprint of Workloads thumbnail
27:46
almost 2 years ago

Minimising the Carbon Footprint of Workloads

Michael Mueller

Upcoming sessions on this topic

Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

The Broken Rung: How AI is Rebuilding Software Development from the Ground Up

Tomislav Tipurić

Chief Technology Officer, Nephos

Tomislav Tipurić
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

Beyond the Code: Human-AI Synergies in Product Development

Ajita Kanchivakam Ananth

Staff Technical Program Manager at Google

Ajita Kanchivakam Ananth
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

The Productivity Illusion: What AI Really Changed for Developers

Fatih Kadir Akın

DevRel at WordPress • Automattician • GitHub Star • Public Speaker

Fatih Kadir Akın
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

AI ROI: The Hard Unit Economics of AI-Native Engineering

Manu Gurudatha

Manu Gurudatha, VP of Engineering at PagerDuty

Manu Gurudatha
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

Engineering the Pivot: How Creative Strategy Solves the Hard Problems of AI Accuracy and Scale

Shruti Tiwari

AI/ML product manager, Dell

Shruti Tiwari
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

When Humans Stop Writing Code: Rethinking Languages, Compilers, and Responsibility

Simon Auer

Organizer of flutter vienna meetup and CEO of marqably

Simon Auer

Related videos

State of DevEx 2025: Navigating the AI Revolution and Developer Experience thumbnail
26:38
WWC 2025 • 12 months ago

State of DevEx 2025: Navigating the AI Revolution and Developer Experience

Andrew Boyagi

The Future of Developer Experience with GenAI: Driving Engineering Excellence thumbnail
28:38
WWC 2024 • almost 2 years ago

The Future of Developer Experience with GenAI: Driving Engineering Excellence

Daniel Tao, Kathrin Schwan, Faris Haddad, Florian Schaudel

The AI-Ready Stack: Rethinking the Engineering Org of the Future thumbnail
28:09
WWC 2025 • 12 months ago

The AI-Ready Stack: Rethinking the Engineering Org of the Future

Alex Laubscher, Jan Oberhauser, Keno Dreßel, Mirko Novakovic

Building the next generation of AI developer tools thumbnail
30:34
WWC Europe 2026 • about 1 month ago

Building the next generation of AI developer tools

Krzysztof Cieślak

Engineering Productivity: Cutting Through the AI Noise thumbnail
25:34
WWC 2025 • 12 months ago

Engineering Productivity: Cutting Through the AI Noise

Himanshu Vasishth, Jackie Brosamer, Lukas Pfeiffer, Mindaugas Mozūras

The AI-Native Engineering Org: What’s Real, What’s Hype, What’s Next thumbnail
28:33
WWC Europe 2026 • about 1 month ago

The AI-Native Engineering Org: What’s Real, What’s Hype, What’s Next

Taroon Mandhana, Sebastian Kister

Related articles

From learning to earning

Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.