Ep. #85, AI/LLM in Software Teams: What’s Working and What’s Next with Dr. Cat Hicks
Jessica Kerr, Austin Parker, and Ken Rimple are joined by Dr. Cat Hicks of Catharsis Consulting for a social-science look at what AI is doing to software teams.
By: Ken Rimple
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On episode 85 of O11ycast, Jessica Kerr, Austin Parker, and Ken Rimple are joined by Dr. Cat Hicks of Catharsis Consulting. The conversation looks at AI through a social-science lens: how it sharpens the long-running tension between solitary and collaborative models of software work, why fear about AI often points at older problems such as undervalued collaboration and unrealistic productivity targets, and what empathy, theory of mind, and pluralistic ignorance tell us about teams that prepare more for their tools than for each other.
Dr. Cat Hicks is a psychologist and research architect who studies how software teams learn, collaborate, and communicate. As founder of Catharsis Consulting, she brings empirical psychology to technical organizations, with a focus on learning culture and evidence-based practice.
Show notes are available on Heavybit.
Links
- Catharsis Consulting
- "Behavioural science is unlikely to change the world without a heterogeneity revolution"
- Mina Cikara
- What Makes Us Social? By Chris Frith and Uta Frith
- AI Skill Threat research study
- Will AI Speed Development in Your Legacy App? (Honeycomb Blog)
- The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine (Fred Hebert article)
- Community (TV Show)