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Can you scale agentic coding without sacrificing quality or introducing new technical debt? Yes, you can. 📕 The Blueprint contains: - The research behind Code Health: Defining the quality level AI agents need to work reliably without introducing defects - The CodeHealth MCP tools that you can easily add to any agentic workflow to safeguard generated code and make unhealthy code AI-ready - Benchmarks of Claude Code with and without MCP-guidance - How you can prevent token waste #technicaldebt #aicoding #aiagents #codehealth

Our paper "Technical Debt Friction for Maintenance Prioritization: An Industrial Multi-Case Study" will be presented at the 42nd International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, September 14-18, 2026 in Italy, Benevento. The Technical Debt Friction is a natural part of the CodeScene product when analyzing codebases, and we're happy to share that with the academic community and to get this validation. Full research is available here: https://lnkd.in/eJFreHyM #technicaldebt #codehealth #codequality

Our pre-registered randomized controlled trial on the maintainability of code co-developed with AI assistants has finally been published in Springer's Empirical Software Engineering! 🎆 A massive amount of work went into this, and it was made possible by joint efforts between CodeScene, Equal Experts, Dave Farley, and the Department of Computer Science at Lund University. Some highlights: • Pre-registered study design, accepted at ICSME 2024 • 151 participants, 95% professional developers • Two-phase design: in Phase 1, participants added a new feature to a Java web application, with or without AI assistance. In Phase 2, new participants evolved these solutions manually, without AI assistance. • Mixed-methods research: quantitative and qualitative analysis, combining frequentist and Bayesian statistics. So what did we find? We did not detect systematic advantages or disadvantages in maintainability from using AI assistants in Phase 1. Both completion times and perceived productivity in Phase 2 were consistent with a null effect, with at most small and highly uncertain differences between groups. But the Bayesian analysis suggested a small CodeHealth improvement when the original Phase 1 solution was co-developed with AI by a habitual AI user (someone who frequently uses AI tools). The research article is open access in the first comment. I also wrote a post about my experience conducting rigorous academic research in an era when new AI models are released every other week. Big thanks to all participants in the study and all co-authors: Dave Hewett, Nadim Hagatulah, Noric Couderc, Emma Söderberg, Donald Graham, Uttam Kini, and Dave Farley!

Most enterprises are now on a trajectory towards agentic AI. The uncomfortable reality, as our benchmarks show, is that the average Code Health of industrial codebases, as an example, is far from AI-ready. The 35–45% token waste caused by unhealthy code is a cost that can be mitigated. #aicoding #agenticai #codequality #technicaldebt

Code Health matters more than ever when AI is writing the code. That's why we're proud to join the Tolaria Alliance, supporting 🌀 Luca Rossi's open-source Tolaria alongside friends at Codacy, CircleCI and Unblocked. Tolaria has almost 18,000 GitHub stars, 100,000+ downloads, and thousands of daily active users, and it's stayed fully open-source the whole way. Luca's approach to steering AI-generated code comes down to three layers: guides (instructions the AI may or may not follow), gates (deterministic checks that block bad code outright) and guards (daily fallback fixes for what slips through). We're proud to say that CodeHealth is that deterministic gate, with real-time code health checks and fixes that keep code in check, whether it's written by AI or by humans. Luca, we're excited to follow you on this journey, and we'll post some more interesting examples on "how to". Don't miss out. 🚀

Today I am excited to introduce the Tolaria Alliance! 🦸♂️ Over the last months I have been spending more and more time developing Tolaria, and I have been looking for ways to make this work sustainable, so to keep the product free and open to everybody. So I reached out to some of the tools I use the most in my coding workflow, to design a special kind of open source sponsorship, in which Tolaria gets some funding in return for me spreading the word about how I use such tools, and providing good feedback on how to improve them. The result is an *alliance* that today includes four of my favorite tools, that I literally use every day: CodeScene, CircleCI, Codacy, and Unblocked. These partnerships allow Tolaria to stay free and open, and even give us the opportunity to accelerate by hiring a great product engineer (if you think you are a great fit, please reach out and say hi!) I wrote more about how I work on Tolaria in today’s newsletter, which I link in the comments 👇 I want to thank everyone who made this possible, including Rob Zuber, Adam Tornhill, Jaime Jorge, and Dennis Pilarinos. Thank you so much for trusting and supporting our work! 

🚀 Token waste that can be mitigated. That's a hot topic at our upcoming webinar. We're all token-aware, as Dr. Markus Borg says, and there's room for big savings. Tune in What Unhealthy Code Costs in the Agentic Era and How to Fix It This Friday, 7 PM CET. 👉 Sign up https://lnkd.in/eFa7ugtp Speakers: Principal Researcher Dr. Markus Borg and Senior Software Engineer Asko Nõmm #agenticai #aicoding #aiagents #technicaldebt #codehealth

From building companies to shaping the future of innovation in 🇸🇪 Hamdija Jusufagic is an entrepreneur, investor, and the founder of System Verification and Reeinvent, as well as Co-Founder of CodeScene. Recognized as one of Sweden’s most prominent business leaders, he has built his career around innovation, entrepreneurship, and social responsibility. His work has earned him some of Sweden’s most prestigious recognitions, including the Pioneer Prize of the Year awarded by His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf, Sweden’s Business Leader of the Year, and EY Sweden’s Male Rising Star of the Year 👏 Beyond business, Hamdija has served as a member of the board of Malmö FF, the historic Malmö Börssällskap (founded in 1798), Malmö University and  as Member of The Business Executives Council South in   The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). We are thrilled to welcome Hamdija as a speaker at Innovate Split 2026, so grab your ticket via 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ePFNbNpT and see you on 10-11 September in Split ☺️ #InnovateSplit2026