The Aboard Podcast
Why AI Makes Things Worse for Enterprise Teams
May 12, 2026
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26 min 59 sec
Why are so few engineering teams reaping the benefits of AI? On this week’s episode, Paul presents Rich with the findings from a recent report from CircleCI and Thoughtworks on the productivity of enterprise teams using LLMs. While there’s been a dramatic increase in throughput—the amount of code produced—across the board, just 5% of orgs are seeing real gains from these tools, while the majority struggle with errors, bugs, and lower productivity than before AI was introduced. As Paul puts it: “The advantages of this technology are not equally distributed.”
Show Notes
- The CircleCI/Thoughtworks study being discussed: “The new reality of software delivery”
- Simon Willison on Zig
Transcript
Transcript coming soon!