--- title: Blog: AI Adoption Is Not a Strategy | daily.dev description: 90% of developers now use AI coding tools, but DORA's 2025 research shows adoption alone doesn't improve delivery — and can actually harm stability. The post... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/blog-ai-adoption-is-not-a-strategy-zfmxao4dd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Blog: AI Adoption Is Not a Strategy | daily.dev og:description: 90% of developers now use AI coding tools, but DORA's 2025 research shows adoption alone doesn't improve delivery — and can actually harm stability. The post... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/blog-ai-adoption-is-not-a-strategy-zfmxao4dd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/zFMxAo4Dd.png og:image:alt: Blog: AI Adoption Is Not a Strategy og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Blog: AI Adoption Is Not a Strategy **[Wawandco](https://daily.dev/sources/wawandco)** · 8 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 90% of developers now use AI coding tools, but DORA's 2025 research shows adoption alone doesn't improve delivery — and can actually harm stability. The post analyzes the 'adoption gap': AI amplifies existing organizational strengths and dysfunctions alike, with studies showing increased PR volume straining review pipelines and over 15% of AI-authored commits introducing detectable issues. The solution is DORA's AI Capabilities Model — seven practices including clear AI usage policies, high-quality internal data ecosystems, AI-accessible context, small batch sizes, internal developer platforms, continuous integration with rollback, and user-centric focus. Engineering leaders are advised to diagnose their weakest capability before expanding AI tooling, as fixing the bottleneck matters more than adding seats. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Does adopting AI coding assistants actually improve software delivery performance according to DORA's research? Not by itself. DORA's 2024 generative AI report found a 25% increase in AI adoption was associated with a 1.5% reduction in delivery throughput and a 7.2% reduction in delivery stability. The 2025 report showed improved throughput but still confirmed a negative relationship between AI adoption and delivery stability, since AI amplifies existing organizational strengths or dysfunctions rather than fixing them. _Teams weighing whether to expand AI tooling can track delivery-stability research like this on daily.dev._ ### How often does AI-generated code introduce bugs or security issues that persist in production? A large-scale study of 304,362 verified AI-authored commits across 6,275 repositories found more than 15% of commits from every major AI coding assistant introduced at least one detectable issue, and 24.2% of tracked AI-introduced issues survived at the latest repository revision. Security issues were the most likely to persist, with a 41.1% survival rate. _Developers assessing AI code quality risk can follow findings like these via daily.dev._ ### What are DORA's seven AI capabilities for making AI coding tools improve delivery instead of hurting it? DORA's AI Capabilities Model lists a clear AI usage policy, a healthy internal data ecosystem, AI access to internal systems, working in small batches, strong internal platforms, fast and reversible feedback loops, and a user-centric focus. Teams typically score well on only one or two and should fix the weakest capability, often small batches or platform maturity, before adding more AI tooling. _Engineering leaders designing an AI rollout strategy can dig into frameworks like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [From adoption to impact: Putting the DORA AI Capabilities Model to work](https://daily.dev/posts/from-adoption-to-impact-putting-the-dora-ai-capabilities-model-to-work-efixyb4mu) · Google Cloud · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [DORA’s 2025 research on the impact of AI](https://daily.dev/posts/dora-s-2025-research-on-the-impact-of-ai-rxssp8auu) · Software Engineering Research · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [DORA is right: AI is an amplifier, for better or worse](https://daily.dev/posts/dora-is-right-ai-is-an-amplifier-for-better-or-worse-pkgqpbuig) · CircleCI · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [What the 2025 DORA Report means for your AI strategy](https://daily.dev/posts/what-the-2025-dora-report-means-for-your-ai-strategy-hfwyfvstt) · Engineering Enablement · 6 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#productivity](https://daily.dev/tags/productivity), [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding), [#company-culture](https://daily.dev/tags/company-culture), [#dora-metrics](https://daily.dev/tags/dora-metrics) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/blog-ai-adoption-is-not-a-strategy-zfmxao4dd) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Blog: AI Adoption Is Not a Strategy","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/blog-ai-adoption-is-not-a-strategy-zfmxao4dd","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/blog-ai-adoption-is-not-a-strategy-zfmxao4dd"},"datePublished":"2026-08-04T15:23:41.138Z","dateModified":"2026-09-13T21:33:03.255Z","description":"90% of developers now use AI coding tools, but DORA's 2025 research shows adoption alone doesn't improve delivery — and can actually harm stability. 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