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AI tools increase software developer speed but do not improve the rate of actually shipping software. The finding highlights a gap between coding velocity and delivery of finished products. Developers produce more code faster without corresponding gains in deployment frequency.
The industry replaced lines of code with "percent of code written by AI" as a developer productivity metric. Both are volume claims that say nothing about business outcomes. GitHub previously measured developer task completion speed, a falsifiable outcome claim. Current AI vendor metrics cannot fail because they track adoption, not value.
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