Study Finds AI-generated Code Fails to Boost Productivity Due to Downstream Bottlenecks

October 22, 2026 · 2:00 pm 1 sources

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• Study Finds AI-generated Code Fails to Boost Productivity Due to Downstream Bottlenecks
  InfoQ · October 22, 2026 14:00
  A recent Harvard study of 718 firms, using the Jellyfish analytics platform, finds that although AI coding assistants and agents increase code volume, this does not translate into a corresponding increase in completed work, partly because AI-generated code increases the workload in later stages of…