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Economic costs and return
Editorial topic mappings connect related questions across sources and book chapters.
SE@PoliMi bibliography 15
- W004 — Speed at the Cost of Quality: How Cursor AI Increases Short-Term Velocity and Long-Term Complexity in Open-Source Projects
He · 2026 - W063 — An Endless Stream of AI Slop: How Developers Discuss the Burden of AI-Assisted Software Development
Baltes · 2026 - W080 — Unit Testing Past vs. Present: Examining LLMs' Impact on Defect Detection and Efficiency
Ramler · 2025 - W090 — Decoding the Representation of Code in the Brain: An fMRI Study of Code Review and Expertise
Floyd · 2017 - W093 — Automating Low-Risk Code Review at Meta: RADAR, Risk Calibration, and Review Efficiency
Adams · 2026 - W095 — Beyond Code Generation: Reliability, Verification, and Cost Economics in the Agentic Software Development Lifecycle
Bhati · 2026 - W117 — The Augmentation Trap: AI Productivity and the Cost of Cognitive Offloading
Caosun · 2026 - W119 — Training in the Age of AI: A Theory of Career Viability
Garicano · 2026 - W120 — Automation, AI, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Knowledge
Ide · 2026 - W139 — Do Job Postings Show Early Labor-Market Effects of AI?
Audoly · 2026 - W145 — ROI of AI-Assisted Software Development
DORA · 2026 - W147 — To Ban or not to Ban? How Open Source Projects Govern GenAI Contributions
Yang · 2026 - W159 — Memory Management and Contextual Consistency for Long-Running Low-Code Agents
Xu · 2026 - W172 — Measuring neural efficiency of program comprehension
Siegmund · 2017 - W180 — Using psycho-physiological measures to assess task difficulty in software development
Fritz · 2014
Addy Osmani 3
- O008 — Software Factories, Light and Dark
Addy Osmani · 2026-07-22 - O012 — Loop Engineering
Addy Osmani · 2026-06-08 - O045 — Personal Software: The Unbundling of the Programmer?
Addy Osmani · 2025-02-09
The Pragmatic Engineer 14
- P007 — Hiring software engineers and engineering leaders from Big Tech (Part 2)
Gergely Orosz · 2024-11-19 - P019 — Microsoft’s developer tools roots
Gergely Orosz · 2025-01-21 - P028 — Trimodal Nature of Tech Compensation in the US, UK and India
Gergely Orosz · 2025-03-04 - P057 — Creative ways to fund open source projects
Gergely Orosz · 2025-08-21 - P061 — How tech companies measure the impact of AI on software development
Gergely Orosz; Laura Tacho · 2025-09-16 - P068 — San Francisco is back as the world’s leading tech hub
Gergely Orosz · 2025-10-28 - P076 — Downdetector and the real cost of no upstream dependencies
Gergely Orosz · 2025-12-05 - P084 — I replaced a $120/year micro-SaaS in 20 minutes with LLM-generated code
Gergely Orosz · 2026-01-29 - P094 — What is inference engineering? Deepdive
Gergely Orosz (introduction); Philip Kiely (guest excerpt) · 2026-03-31 - P095 — The impact of AI on software engineers in 2026: key trends. Part 1
Gergely Orosz; Elin Nilsson · 2026-04-14 - P098 — Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Cloud & Doing the Right Thing
Gergely Orosz (introduction); Martin Kleppmann; Chris Riccomini (excerpts) · 2026-05-05 - P110 — What is “loop engineering?”
Gergely Orosz · 2026-07-14 - P111 — Pushing software engineering limits with “napkin math”
Gergely Orosz · 2026-07-21 - P124 — Building resilient AI-powered software, and planning for when things go wrong
Gergely Orosz (introduction); Sam Newman (excerpts) · 2026-10-13
Martin Fowler’s website 5
- F003 — In-line assistance - when is it more useful?
Birgitta Böckeler · 2023-08-01 - F028 — Viability of local models for coding
Birgitta Böckeler · 2026-07-07 - F030 — The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
Giles Edwards-Alexander · 2026-07-30 - F031 — TDD inside the agent loop - theater or actual value?
Birgitta Böckeler · 2026-08-10 - F033 — Are Harnesses Worth the Cost?
Naresh Jain · 2026-10-13
Earlier Non-Deterministic books 11
- B016 — PART IV: Organizational Foundation
Enrico Papalini · - B029 — Measurement \& Observability
Enrico Papalini · - B035 — AI Adoption in the European Union
Enrico Papalini · - B062 — Autonomous Execution: Modes, Budgets, and Governance
Enrico Papalini · - B096 — Safety, Security, and Risk Management
Enrico Papalini · - B099 — Troubleshooting and Debugging
Enrico Papalini · - B103 — Summary
Enrico Papalini · - B106 — The Economics of Loop Engineering
Enrico Papalini · - B108 — Building a Full Local AI Loop
Enrico Papalini · - B109 — Choosing the Right Loop
Enrico Papalini · - B110 — References — 85 voci bibliografiche
Enrico Papalini ·