It’s not evidence, but anecdotally i have two clients who have been working fully agentic for a good 6 months and they’re smashing it. Even looking at it critically they haven’t been able to find any obvious negative impact on code quality, product stability or performance or security.
I think the secret sauce is that they weren’t born with AI, they just integrated it into technical cultures that were already solid. In this context it does speed things up a bunch. Not a 100x multiplier or whatever dumb stuff they’re pushing on Twitter, but you do get high velocity without burning out your team or sacrificing quality.
And those 2 companies i just happen to know but they’re nothing special. You take any boring software company from Paris or Berlin and i’m pretty sure you’ll get the evidence you seek.
I still have not seen evidence that LLMs can make it easier for engineers to produce working code at scale.
It’s not evidence, but anecdotally i have two clients who have been working fully agentic for a good 6 months and they’re smashing it. Even looking at it critically they haven’t been able to find any obvious negative impact on code quality, product stability or performance or security.
I think the secret sauce is that they weren’t born with AI, they just integrated it into technical cultures that were already solid. In this context it does speed things up a bunch. Not a 100x multiplier or whatever dumb stuff they’re pushing on Twitter, but you do get high velocity without burning out your team or sacrificing quality.
And those 2 companies i just happen to know but they’re nothing special. You take any boring software company from Paris or Berlin and i’m pretty sure you’ll get the evidence you seek.