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The insider’s read on the AI transformation of software

The Big Handover96 in 100 surveyed developers use AI at work. Adoption has moved faster than the review, coordination, and governance around it. The challenge lies in how AI-assisted work is checked, controlled, and owned.an essay by Kirill Skrygan
Academic research

The depth behind Kairos

Browse research

Studies you can read, datasets you can download, benchmarks you can run — the record of how people and AI build software, and where every Kairos claim comes from

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Human × AI
Code-fluent LLMs are reshaping how software gets made. Not every new interaction scenario helps — finding the ones that do, and designing for them.
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Verified AI
As AI writes more of the code, the hard part is knowing whether it’s right. The tools and methods that hold it to the same bar as everything else.
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Tomorrow Lab
Today’s LLMs weren’t built for your codebase. Tomorrow’s learn its languages, its compiler, its runtime — and we’re building them.
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Market intelligence

How far do developers
actually delegate to AI?

A live, citable corpus on the AI shift — 11,000+ coding professionals across two survey waves. Adoption is effectively saturated; delegation is stuck short of what developers want

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Where each tool sits on the ladder, by activity.

  • See the spreadEach tool's users across the five levels.
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