Bram as a research instrument?

If you are a researcher who wants to study how people work with AIs to build software, what is your strategy for experimental design? It occurs to me that Bram could serve as a useful research instrument in various ways. Using a guided workflow Bram enforces a disciplined way of defining and executing subtasks (the “Worklist”). The most consistent feedback about Bram, so far, has been some version of: “I feel like I’m in control.” One possible A/B experiment: for a given assignment, group A defines and executes subtasks in a free-form way and group B uses the Bram workflow. How do participants feel about their control over the process? Working in a repo Bram manages work in a git repository and structures the work so that it flows into the repo in a clean and orderly way. Another A/B experiment: group A clones an unmanaged repo and performs git ceremonies in free-form dialog with agents, group B clones the same repo and uses Bram to direct git ceremonies. What do the resulting repos…

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