Month: January 2026

New Study Shows AI Coding Tools Boost Speed — While Hurting Code Quality

AI coding tools are still making many codebases worse, and a new study from Carnegie Mellon University on Cursor shows the main problem is falling code quality.[arxiv]​ What the study did Researchers looked at 807 GitHub projects that adopted Cursor and compared them with 1,380 similar projects that did not use it. They measured how …

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8 Red Flags 🚩 for QA

We’ve all been there—that “gut feeling” early in a sprint that things might be going off the rails. As someone who’s spent over a decade in the trenches of software testing, I’ve learned that quality isn’t just about finding bugs; it’s about reading the room. Sometimes, the environment itself is the biggest bug of all. …

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