Survey Surfaces Emerging DevOps Bottlenecks in the AI Coding Era
DevOps.com, Tuesday, June 9th, 2026
A survey of 831 engineers finds manual reviews, security testing, and code rework are top AI-era bottlenecks.
A survey of 831 software engineers and DevOps professionals, conducted by User Evidence for Black Duck Software, identifies manual reviews (52%), security testing (51%), code rework (48%), and prompt iteration (41%) as the major bottlenecks in the AI coding era. GitHub Copilot (83%), Claude Code (63%), and Amazon Q (49%) are the most used assistants, and 41% have adopted AI in more than half of new projects.
While 58% report major productivity and velocity gains and 91% save at least three hours weekly, developers now spend more time reviewing AI-generated code and on architecture. Notably, 64% are concerned that AI tools are introducing security defects and vulnerabilities.