Fixing Engineering’s Biggest Time Suck: Finding Information

The leading cause of friction and time waste for engineering teams is not tech debt, testing or code reviews, but finding information.

This unexpected but revealing insight comes from Atlassian’s “State of Developer Experience 2025” report. Finding information has overtaken technical debt, which topped the list last year, as the top source of developer friction. The key finding from surveying 3,500 developers and managers is:

While more development teams perceive they’re gaining more time from AI, they’re also reporting greater…