... days got worse, and it took me a while to see why. Automation ate the typing. It did not touch the checking, and it multiplied the number of things waiting to be checked. Then I found telemetry that matches: FarosAI looked at two years of workflow data from 22,000 developers across 4,000+ teams. Task throughput per developer up 33.7%. Median time a pull request sits in review up 441.5%. Daily PR contexts per developer ...

... shift. There's a report that came out this spring that I keep coming back to, and I don't think it landed properly with makers because it's written for engineering leaders at big companies. FarosAI published "The Acceleration Whiplash" in April two years of telemetry from 22,000 developers across more than 4,000 teams. Not a survey about how developers feel. Actual measurement of what came out the other end. The headline finding ... ... that the volume flowing past those absent eyes went up several times over, and the code arriving now is code you didn't write and often can't fully explain. The report has a good phrase for the mechanism: