Termsslug: activity-outcome-gap

Activity-Outcome Gap

活动—产出落差

Phenomenon where AI raises developer coding activity without improving delivery outcomes.

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Hacker News AIT2·Industry
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Study Finds AI Coding Tools Fail to Speed Up Software Delivery

A research talk drawing on 30 interviews and multiple papers argues that AI coding tools boost code-writing activity but do not translate into faster software delivery, creating an activity-outcome gap. The authors attribute the bottleneck to downstream work such as review, integration, testing and coordination rather than coding itself.