Evidence

Format Online paper / PDF

"AI-generated code and human-written code exhibit different defect patterns, complexity profiles and security vulnerabilities in large-scale comparisons."

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Source title Human-Written vs. AI-Generated Code: A Large-Scale Study of Defects, Vulnerabilities, and Complexity

Source authors Domenico Cotroneo; Cristina Improta; Pietro Liguori

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Strong testing practices, clear workflows and coherent internal platforms can help organisations turn AI-assisted development speed into sustainable engineering outcomes."

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Source title Balancing AI tensions: Moving from AI adoption to effective SDLC use

Source authors Jessica Baolin; Nathen Harvey

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"AI can amplify an engineering organisation’s existing strengths and weaknesses rather than independently fixing its underlying development culture."

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Source title DORA 2025 State of AI-assisted Software Development Report

Source authors Derek DeBellis; Kevin Storer; Nathen Harvey; et al.

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"During Lunar New Year celebrations in San Francisco’s Chinatown in February 2024, a crowd smashed the windows of a Waymo robotaxi and set it on fire using fireworks."

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Source title Waymo robotaxi goes up in flames in Chinatown after crowd attacks vehicle

Source authors George Kelly; Julie Makinen; Josh Koehn

Source year 2024

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Video / YouTube Embed

"Even a Roomba has a handle because people sometimes need a direct physical way to intervene in an autonomous robot’s operation."

Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER The Third Axis

Source title Inside iRobot: How the Roomba Sparked a Revolution in AI Robotics with Rodney Brooks

Source authors Rodney Brooks; Eric Ries

Source year 2024

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"AI adoption varies substantially by software-development task, with communication receiving more resistance than several technical uses."

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Source title AI data 2026

Source authors Stack Overflow

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Trust in AI-assisted work depends strongly on whether people can verify the system’s outputs."

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Source title Trust in AI tools

Source authors Stack Overflow

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Developers can have favourable attitudes toward AI tools while objecting to AI-generated communication and authorship."

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Source title AI data 2026

Source authors Stack Overflow

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Passing raw AI-generated responses to other people can shift interpretation and verification work onto recipients who expected human engagement."

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Source title Don't be a meat proxy

Source authors Niklas Gruhn

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"In Dunlop’s survey, 98% of respondents preferred an author’s imperfect original writing to an LLM-polished alternative."

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Source title Report: How developers react to AI-scented blog posts

Source authors Cynthia Dunlop

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance mid