GoKawiilStudy of 700+ firms finds AI coding agents boost code volume, not shipped software
A study covering more than 700 software companies found that AI coding agents raised lines of code by 30 percent, commits by 20 percent, and pull requests by 23 percent, but did not meaningfully increase the rate at which firms resolved tracked features or issues in tools like Jira. Researchers attribute the gap to code review, which took 49 percent longer on average after AI tools were adopted, with more revisions required and more reviewer comments per pull request.