The Bottleneck Moved: AI Coding Agents Write 30% More Code, but Teams Ship the Same
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Most teams that adopted AI coding agents expected one thing: ship faster. A new Harvard working paper on 718 companies suggests they got the opposite of the metric that matters. Code volume rose about 30%, but delivered output barely moved — and time spent on code review jumped 49%. The bottleneck…
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- 2026-10-13 13:17 · DEV Community — AI
The Bottleneck Moved: AI Coding Agents Write 30% More Code, but Teams Ship the Same