Survey: AI Coding Exacerbates Existing DevOps Workflow Issues
DevOps.com, Friday, March 13th, 2026
A global survey of 700 software engineering practices published this week finds that thanks to increased reliance on artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools, well over a third (35%) are either achieving daily or more frequent product deployments, with 36% deploying software multiple times per week. However, more than half (51%) also noted AI-generated code leads to deployment problems at least half the time.
Conducted by the market research firm Coleman Parkes on behalf of Harness, the survey also finds more than three quarters (78%) admit they have fragmented delivery toolchains, with 70% of respondents also conceding their pipelines are plagued by flaky tests and deployment failures.
More than three-quarters (77%) said teams often need to wait on others for routine delivery work before they can ship code and only 21% said they can add functioning build and deploy pipelines to an environment in under two hours.