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"Our findings imply that widespread organizational expectations for rapid productivity gains without sufficient investment in learning support creates a "Productivity Pressure Paradox," undermining the very productivity benefits that motivate adoption."
Hmm almost like I was right about the core psych needs when I interviewed developers BEFORE genAI 😃
@mhoye@mastodon.social worth noting that the preprint I linked is specifically with developers at a big tech co that's pro AI adoption!! So even within that population finding this
@mhoye@mastodon.social fwiw ? I'm a little out of date because busy living lol but qual interview studies from software research are mostly producing commentary on confusion, complex interaction effects, and extremely mixed positions from developers which is about what I'd expect given how I see my community talk about it all
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21280
@mhoye@mastodon.social
"Our findings imply that widespread organizational expectations for rapid productivity gains without sufficient investment in learning support creates a "Productivity Pressure Paradox," undermining the very productivity benefits that motivate adoption."
Hmm almost like I was right about the core psych needs when I interviewed developers BEFORE genAI 😃
@mhoye@mastodon.social she doesn't have anything new listed on her page since 2024 so I'm betting this is something that'll get packaged up later or maybe it's an ongoing project sliced into for a leadership take idk.... Impossible to evaluate this as a qual study without any detail 🤷♀️
I like interview studies plenty but this Microsoft research playbook of "do interviews --> claim generalizable personas --> call it a framework" is really not one I agree with
@mhoye@mastodon.social fwiw ? I'm a little out of date because busy living lol but qual interview studies from software research are mostly producing commentary on confusion, complex interaction effects, and extremely mixed positions from developers which is about what I'd expect given how I see my community talk about it all
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21280
@mhoye@mastodon.social interesting that Eirini Kalliamvakou is an author on this I will have to go find the paper...? Is there a qualitative interview paper underneath this blogpost??
@mhoye@mastodon.social she doesn't have anything new listed on her page since 2024 so I'm betting this is something that'll get packaged up later or maybe it's an ongoing project sliced into for a leadership take idk.... Impossible to evaluate this as a qual study without any detail 🤷♀️
I like interview studies plenty but this Microsoft research playbook of "do interviews --> claim generalizable personas --> call it a framework" is really not one I agree with
@mhoye@mastodon.social this is so funny because when I interviewed ~22 developers I came up with "learning is important and the culture of this field is really suppressing it"
@mhoye@mastodon.social interesting that Eirini Kalliamvakou is an author on this I will have to go find the paper...? Is there a qualitative interview paper underneath this blogpost??
@mhoye@mastodon.social oh no
@mhoye@mastodon.social this is so funny because when I interviewed ~22 developers I came up with "learning is important and the culture of this field is really suppressing it"
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