# Engineer's post-mortem shows autonomous AI agents spent 33 percent of 15-day sprint on non-product work > Source: > Published: 2026-08-01 20:04:40+00:00 # Engineer's post-mortem shows autonomous AI agents spent 33 percent of 15-day sprint on non-product work According to a GitHub post-mortem shared by an engineer, AI agents spent 5 of 15 autonomous development days on non-product code including infrastructure and tooling rather than feature development. The analysis revealed gaps in goal-directed autonomous behavior and suggested that AI coding productivity metrics may not fully capture time allocation across work categories. ## Topics ## Sources - Social [Read article](https://github.com/nelsonwerd/proof-ate-the-project) ## Go deeper This intelligence is sourced automatically from public sources across the web and synthesised by the Prefactor AI pipeline. Stories are reviewed before publication.