The Shipping Throughput Doctrine: Why 180 Percent More AI Code Only Produced 20 Percent More Shipped Software, And The 5-Question Audit That Closes The Gap

Stephen Diaz

Published on: 16/06/2026

A new MIT and Wharton study of 100,000+ GitHub developers found AI coding agents drove a 741% increase in lines of code and 180% more commits but only 20% more software releases. 78% of organizations report production incidents tied to AI code. Code churn jumped 861%. 60% of enterprises now ship untested code. Run The Shipping Throughput Doctrine to audit every AI workflow against 5 questions and close the generation-to-shipped gap.