The Software Factory Has a Bottleneck, and It Is the Job

In September, a developer survey found that 42 percent of respondents now let AI write at least half of their code. A year earlier the figure was 12. Around the same time, a dataset of eight million pull requests showed that AI-generated ones get merged within a month roughly a third of the time, against about 85 percent for code people wrote themselves. They come from different studies with different samples, so they don’t measure the same thing.