"Large/long-scale industry studies [of LLM use for programming] show a clear trend – output is up (more code, more commits, bigger diffs), but outcomes don’t reflect that trend. If anything, the average team is taking longer to ship worse software. If ever we needed proof that software development isn’t a production process."

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/ai-software-development-what-does-the-data-say/