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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.

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#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 · World Congress 2025

1:23 min

Measuring developer productivity, efficiency metrics, and team happiness

Neel Sundaresan Neel Sundaresan +1 · World Congress 2026 Europe

4:08 min

Evaluating AI productivity across the software development funnel

Alejandro Saucedo Alejandro Saucedo · World Congress 2025

1:31 min

Addressing developer burnout and the impact of artificial intelligence

Pauline Pagliaro Pauline Pagliaro · World Congress 2025

5:16 min

Motivations for adopting AI to enhance developer productivity

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