Oracle hit 80% AI adoption. Its co-CEO says products still ship no faster.
TheStreet reported on 20 September, citing Business Insider, that Oracle co-chief executive Clay Magouyrk told employees AI was speeding up coding without getting products into customers' hands sooner.
The bottleneck moved.
"When you make the actual act of writing the code quicker, it doesn't mean that suddenly everything is 1,000 times faster," Magouyrk said. Testing, validation, deployment and release management now have to be redesigned to take the faster output, the report said.
Oracle rolled out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex in April and May and reached 80% adoption within three months. That 80% measures usage. It says nothing about delivery speed. Looking back a year, Magouyrk told staff: "I don't think we figured out how we make AI really that useful for ourselves."
If your developers doubled their output tomorrow, would the queue move to testing and change approval, or all the way to the release board?
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