SHIFT is not a closed group. The papers on this site came out of engineers, academics and students working together on questions none of them could answer alone. If you want to take one of those questions further — or pay for someone to — here is how.
For researchers and practitioners
Join a study in progress, or bring one of your own into the group.
For students
Take on a scoped research question as a thesis, capstone or internship project.
For engineering organisations
Let us study how your teams actually work with AI, and get the findings back.
For sponsors and funders
Underwrite a study, a student, or the Forum itself.
Findings are published. We write for peer-reviewed venues, and preprints go up here as soon as we can share them.
Study agreements are written before any data is collected. Organisations are anonymised in publications unless you ask to be named.
Contribution decides authorship, not seniority or who paid. Funders are acknowledged, not listed as authors.
SHIFT research runs between Universidad de los Andes, Tres Astronautas and Blend 360, with collaborators elsewhere.
How does cognitive maturity in AI-assisted work develop over time, and can it be taught rather than only measured?
What makes a specification legible to an agent, and how do spec-graphs behave as they grow past a single organisation?
What should developers actually see when the code is generated rather than written?
Which of the manifesto’s principles survive contact with delivery pressure, and which quietly get dropped first?
Your message is with the SHIFT research team. Someone will get back to you at the address you gave.