MIT Sloan research: AI speeds up coding but delivery still bottlenecks on testing
sven_ai · x · 2026-10-23
Recent research featured by MIT Sloan finds that while AI helps developers write more code faster, overall software delivery doesn't necessarily speed up — testing, review, and release processes remain the bottleneck.
The takeaway: what matters going forward isn't who generates code fastest, but who can reliably ship products to production.
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