Why aren't we shipping faster now?

Christian Bird from Dryden Technology Group presented research at UC Irvine examining why software shipping speeds haven't increased despite AI advances in coding tools. The talk and accompanying papers explore the gap between AI's capability to write code and its actual impact on shipping outcomes, drawing on interviews and studies comparing productivity across generations of AI coding tools. The research suggests that while AI has unlocked certain developer capabilities, organizational and procedural factors—not just coding speed—determine overall software delivery velocity.