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Software development is entering a new era. AI agents can write code, run tests, and take on tasks across the development life cycle—compressing work that once took weeks into days or even hours. But as AI takes on more of the work, it is challenging long-held assumptions about how software gets built and what developers are there to do. How much do you know about AI’s growing role in software development? Test yourself with this month’s Data Points questions.

Code, accelerated

In one experiment described by McKinsey experts, how quickly did a streamlined AI-enabled software squad complete a task that took a larger team four weeks?

a) Four days

b) Two weeks

c) One day

Dive in to learn more:

How is AI rewriting the rules of software development?

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