AI Coding Assistants Haven’t Sped up Delivery Because Coding Was Never the Bottleneck
Data Engineering

AI Coding Assistants Haven’t Sped up Delivery Because Coding Was Never the Bottleneck

This matters because enterprise architecture decisions around AI, data, and platform engineering define long-term competitiveness and operational efficiency.

I • 2026-03-24

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AI Coding Assistants Haven’t Sped up Delivery Because Coding Was Never the Bottleneck

Agoda recently published an observation arguing that while AI coding tools have measurably raised individual developer output, the resulting velocity gains at the project level have been surprisingly modest, because c...

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