Survey Surfaces Downstream Devops Challenges Created By AI Code
DevOps, Tuesday, September 30th, 2025
A survey of 900 engineers, platform leaders and technical managers published today finds nearly two thirds (63%) report their organization is shipping code faster since adopting artificial intelligence (AI).
Conducted by Coleman Parkes on behalf of Harness, a provider of a DevOps platform, the survey also suggests, however, that same code is creating more downstream DevOps issues, with 72% of respondents noting their organization has already suffered at least one production incident caused by AI-generated code.
In total, 45% of respondents said that deployments involving AI-generated code have been problematic. More challenging still, only 6% of respondents said their continuous delivery process is fully automated. A full 83% say AI must extend across the entire software delivery lifecycle to unlock its full potential.