CloudBees Survey Surfaces Increase in Production Issues Attributable to AI - DevOps.com

A survey of 213 IT leaders reports productivity gains driven by increased adoption of AI tools, with 93% seeing improvements. At the same time, 81% report increased production issues attributable to AI-generated code. Nearly two-thirds report AI is widely adopted or fully integrated into engineering workflows. A Code Abundance Readiness Evaluation (CARE) Index is provided to assess how effectively enterprises track, attribute, and forecast AI-driven costs against productivity outcomes across six dimensions. Respondents report higher code volume, but fewer see higher feature and pull request output. Only 31% can correlate AI spending with business outcomes, and many do not measure ROI. CI/CD and testing, security scanning, and deployment costs have risen, while token limits and automated controls remain uncommon. Test suite maintenance is viewed as a larger burden than writing code.

"A survey of 213 IT leaders, conducted by CloudBees, finds that while 93% report they are seeing productivity gains that are driven by increased adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, a full 81% also report they have seen an increase in production issues attributable to AI-generated code."

"At the same time, CloudBees is making available a Code Abundance Readiness Evaluation (CARE) Index, a proprietary composite score designed to assess how effectively enterprises can track, attribute, and forecast AI-driven costs against productivity outcomes. Based on six dimensions, the CARE Index establishes a baseline for AI governance maturity that can then be used to benchmark progress."

"Additionally, only 31% said they can correlate AI spending with specific business outcomes. Well over a third (36%) track AI spend without measuring return on investment (ROI) or don't measure ROI at all, the survey finds."

"Finally, the survey finds 70% of IT leaders now view test suite maintenance as a bigger burden than writing code itself. More than half of respondents (54%) report a significant increase in CI/CD infrastructure spend over the past 12 months, while 53% say testing, security scanning, and deployment costs have risen alongside growing code volume."

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