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More code, less delivery but does the CircleCI 2026 Report really show 1 in 20 teams are benefiting? (blog.robbowley.net)
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[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 7 points 1 day ago

The success rate of main branch builds compounds this further. It has fallen to 70.8%, its lowest in over five years – 30% of attempts to merge code for production are now failing.

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The integration bottleneck finding is credible. If you’re generating code faster than your team can review and integrate it, that’s a genuine problem this data is consistent with.

I disagree here. If more attempts are failing, then more attempts are needed to merge a branch. If the pipeline is running more and fewer branches are merging, it's also possible that people need to go through more revisions to merge their code than they needed to before.

People using AI to write their entire PR will find that fixing issues with it takes more work. They often don't know how the PR works. I wouldn't be surprised if this resulted in PRs taking longer to merge as a result, which would contradict CircleCI's claims of teams benefiting from AI.

I believe the report has insufficient data to draw any meaningful conclusions. The data is interesting, at least.