{"slug": "why-aren-t-we-shipping-faster-now", "title": "Why aren't we shipping faster now?", "summary": "A UC Irvine software engineering seminar talk on October 30, 2026, titled \"Why aren't we shipping faster now?\", argues that AI coding tools have not translated into faster software delivery, citing a 2026 paper in submission by Cha, Badea, Baym, Bird, Butler, Murphy-Hill and Hadley, \"The Activity-Outcome Gap: Why AI Does Not Solve Software Engineering,\" based on 30 interviews. The talk also cites NBER Working Paper 35275 by Demirer, Musolff and Yang, \"Writing Code vs. Shipping Code: Productivity Effects Across Generations of AI Coding Tools,\" and arXiv:2610.13668 on benchmarking code review agents for bug detection. The talk's premise contrasts with Jensen Huang's May 29, 2023, Computex keynote claim, reported by Reuters, that AI means everyone can now be a programmer.", "body_md": "Talk · UC Irvine software engineering seminar · October 30, 2026\n\n# Why aren’t we shipping faster now?\n\nAI, activity, and outcomes in software engineering\n\n21 minutes, with captions. Also on [YouTube](https://youtu.be/0wumMeZsNsI).\n\n## Slides\n\n- [Handout](why-arent-we-shipping-faster-now-handout.pdf) 19 pages, 3.8 MB\nOne page per picture. The version to read.\n- [Full deck](why-arent-we-shipping-faster-now.pdf) 41 pages, 4.0 MB\nEvery build step, as shown in the talk.\n\n## Papers\n\nCha, Badea, Baym, Bird, Butler, Murphy-Hill, Hadley. *The Activity-Outcome Gap: Why AI Does Not Solve Software Engineering.* In submission, 2026. The 30 interviews; a link will appear here when the paper is public.\n\nDemirer, Musolff, Yang. *Writing Code vs. Shipping Code: Productivity Effects Across Generations of AI Coding Tools.* NBER Working Paper 35275, 2026. [nber.org/papers/w35275](https://www.nber.org/papers/w35275)\n\nChoudhuri, Butler, Bird, Badea, Houck, Sarma. *“To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before”: What Has AI Let Developers Unlock?* 2026. [arXiv:2610.23708](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23708)\n\nJensen Huang, Computex keynote, Taipei, 29 May 2023, as reported by [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/technology/ai-means-everyone-can-now-be-programmer-nvidia-chief-says-2023-05-29/).\n\nYang, He, Cheng, Butler, Murphy-Hill, Badea, Bird. *(When) Should a Software Factory Be Lights-Off? Benchmarking Code Review Agents on Bug Detection.* 2026. [arXiv:2610.13668](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13668)\n\nChoudhuri, Bird, Badea, Gerosa, Sarma. *You Shall Not Pass! Where and Why Developers Draw the Line on AI Autonomy.* 2026. [arXiv:2607.00533](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00533)\n\nMiller, Choudhuri, Ulloa, Haniyur, DeLine, Storey, Murphy-Hill, Bird, Butler. *“Maybe We Need Some More Examples”: Individual and Team Drivers of Developer GenAI Tool Use.* ICSE 2026. [arXiv:2507.21280](https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21280)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-aren-t-we-shipping-faster-now", "canonical_source": "https://cabird.com/talks/shipping-faster/", "published_at": "2026-11-11 16:33:28+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-11 16:53:34.947329+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["UC Irvine", "Cha", "Badea", "Baym", "Bird", "Butler", "Murphy-Hill", "Hadley"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-aren-t-we-shipping-faster-now", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-aren-t-we-shipping-faster-now.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-aren-t-we-shipping-faster-now.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-aren-t-we-shipping-faster-now.jsonld"}}