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Most enterprises claim to govern their AI use. They have policy documents, review boards, approval flows, and sandbox environments. On paper, control exists. Then agents enter real software delivery workflows.

Has your team's sprint velocity actually improved since you approved all those AI coding tools? If not, recent research by JetBrains and UC Irvine shows your developers may be facing a new dimension of context switching that resists the usual fixes.   The key findings were that most …

This opinion piece by JetBrains’ Team Lead in AI Development Experience reflects on key takeaways from NeurIPS 2025, a major AI research conference. It explains why these insights matter and considers related signals emerging from other recent research.