# Why aren't we shipping faster now? > Source: > Published: 2026-11-11 16:33:28+00:00 Talk · UC Irvine software engineering seminar · October 30, 2026 # Why aren’t we shipping faster now? AI, activity, and outcomes in software engineering 21 minutes, with captions. Also on [YouTube](https://youtu.be/0wumMeZsNsI). ## Slides - [Handout](why-arent-we-shipping-faster-now-handout.pdf) 19 pages, 3.8 MB One page per picture. The version to read. - [Full deck](why-arent-we-shipping-faster-now.pdf) 41 pages, 4.0 MB Every build step, as shown in the talk. ## Papers Cha, 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. Demirer, 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) Choudhuri, 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) Jensen 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/). Yang, 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) Choudhuri, 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) Miller, 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)