Sthenos Technologies Research

The 2026 AI-to-Production Gap Report

A 4-minute, anonymous survey of engineering leaders on how AI-generated code actually reaches production: how much of it there is, how teams verify it, what has broken, and who owns the risk.

How deep is AI in your codebase

Roughly what share of the code your org merged in the last 90 days was written or substantially drafted by an AI coding tool? *

A perceived estimate is fine; most orgs do not measure this exactly.

Compared with 12 months ago, that share is: *
Which AI coding tools are in regular use on your team? (select all that apply)

How you verify it

Compared with human-written code, AI-generated code in your org gets: *
Can you quantify how much AI-generated code reaches production without independent human review? *
Have you changed testing, review, or QA specifically because of AI-generated code? *
Over the last 12 months, your verification and QA investment relative to code volume has: *

Incidents and accountability

In the last 12 months, has AI-generated code caused, or nearly caused, a production incident in your org? *
When AI-generated code causes a production problem, who is formally accountable? *
If an auditor asked, how confident are you that you could identify which production code was AI-authored? *

Agentic reality

Where is agentic AI (systems that take multi-step actions autonomously) in your org today? *
The single biggest blocker to trusting AI or agents in production is: *
Do you have observability or monitoring instrumented specifically for AI or agentic components in production? *

Leadership and outlook

How often does your board of directors ask about AI-code risk or AI-in-production reliability? *
Your confidence shipping AI-assisted code to production today, versus 12 months ago: *
In one line: the biggest unsolved problem in getting AI-assisted code safely to production?

About you (for crosstabs; still anonymous)

Which best describes your role? *
How many employees does your company have? *
Your organization primary industry? *

Anonymous. Aggregate results only. Run by Sthenos Technologies.