Sleuth wants to use AI to measure developer productivity – TechCrunch

As knowledge workers including software engineers shifted to remote work during the pandemic, executives expressed a concern that productivity would suffer as a result. The evidence is mixed on this, but in the software industry particularly, remote work exacerbated many of the challenges that employees already faced. According to a 2021 Garden survey, the majority of developers found slow feedback loops during the software development process to be a source of frustration, second only to difficult communication between teams and functional groups. Seventy-five percent said the time they spend on specific tasks is time wasted, suggesting it could be put to more strategic use. In search of a solution to bolster developer productivity, three former Atlassian employees -- Dylan Etkin, Michael Knighten and Don Brown -- cofounded Sleuth, a tool that integrates with existing software development toolchains to provide insights to measure efficiency.