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.
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.