Overview
What this research program is and why it exists. The frame the rest of the work hangs on.
research / devplane
DevPlane research
A cockpit for multi-tool software development. Research is an empirical program on coordination cost in heterogeneous AI tool ecosystems — using DevPlane's continuous production telemetry as the apparatus, not the subject. Lead study: a pre-registered field test of risk compensation in human-AI coordination.
Why this matters
The portable claim — what this research lets you understand outside the surface domain.
The productivity claims being made for AI coding tools are largely grounded in agent-side measurements — lines produced, tasks completed, time-to-PR. If the Ironies of Automation (Bainbridge 1983) are operative — operator vigilance falling as agent reliability rises — those measurements systematically overstate net effect. The DevPlane research program tests that prediction with continuous production telemetry on a real operator running real agents on a real, multi-month codebase. The methodology generalizes: any team running heterogeneous tools through a coordination layer (multi-tool ops dashboards, hospital handoff systems, distributed scientific instruments) shares the same shape of problem.
Read first
The general-audience explainer is the entry point. Everything below is the drill-down.
DevPlane research — overview
General audienceCoordination cost in heterogeneous AI tool ecosystems. Outside-reader brief on what the program studies, why now, and what it contributes.
Read →Drill-down — full research surface
Seven-slot baseline. Forthcoming slots shown openly.
Methodology
How the work is done — instruments, protocols, the standards each report inherits.
Reports
The actual research findings — phased results, research-question briefs, applied analyses.
Audience tiers
The same headline research surfaced four ways: peer-review, engineering, general audience, product.
General-audience explainer
General audience · forthcomingPeer-review framing
Peer-review framing · forthcomingEngineering critique
Engineering critique · forthcomingProduct implications
Product implications · forthcoming
Bibliography
Field positioning — formal references and literature maps grounding the research threads.
Preregistrations & protocols
Studies and intervention protocols filed before execution.
Pipeline
What is running, what is queued, what is forthcoming.