--- title: Survey Surfaces Rising Tide of Production Issues Traced... description: A Wakefield Research survey of 400 business and engineering executives, commissioned by Sauce Labs, finds 80% have traced a production incident, outage, or... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/survey-surfaces-rising-tide-of-production-issues-traced-back-to-ai-code-m8kutlagx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Survey Surfaces Rising Tide of Production Issues Traced Back to AI Code | daily.dev og:description: A Wakefield Research survey of 400 business and engineering executives, commissioned by Sauce Labs, finds 80% have traced a production incident, outage, or... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/survey-surfaces-rising-tide-of-production-issues-traced-back-to-ai-code-m8kutlagx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/M8KuTLAGx.png og:image:alt: Survey Surfaces Rising Tide of Production Issues Traced Back to AI Code 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. # Survey Surfaces Rising Tide of Production Issues Traced Back to AI Code **[DevOps.com](https://daily.dev/sources/devops)** · 5 min read · 2 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary A Wakefield Research survey of 400 business and engineering executives, commissioned by Sauce Labs, finds 80% have traced a production incident, outage, or customer-impacting defect to AI-generated code in the past year. Despite this, 83% report over 10% of production code is AI-generated, 89% report positive ROI, and 91% say quality has improved. Only 6% test AI-generated code with AI tools regularly, and 84% of organizations have cut roles—including junior developers and QA testers—due to AI adoption. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What percentage of companies have had a production incident caused by AI-generated code? 80% of surveyed executives reported that their organization traced a production incident, outage, or customer-impacting defect to AI-generated code within the past 12 months. The survey, conducted by Wakefield Research for Sauce Labs, polled 400 business and engineering executives about their AI coding practices and outcomes. _Track how peers are handling AI code risk and testing gaps by following AI coding coverage on daily.dev._ ### How often is AI-generated code actually tested with AI testing tools? Only 6% of organizations test AI-generated code with AI tools all the time or often, even though 61% say such code is tested with AI tools at least sometimes. This gap persists despite 83% of organizations having more than 10% of their production code generated by AI, according to the Sauce Labs-commissioned survey. _Developers weighing AI-assisted coding against testing rigor can follow this debate on daily.dev._ ### How much are companies spending on AI-assisted development tools? 70% of surveyed organizations spend more than $1 million annually on AI-assisted application development tools and platforms, with 41% spending $5 million or more. Despite this investment and the risks of production incidents, 89% of respondents reported either significantly positive (30%) or somewhat positive (59%) ROI from AI adoption. _Teams justifying AI tooling budgets against real incident risk can track this conversation on daily.dev._ ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ricktonoli** · 0 upvotes >  ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Survey: More AI Code Running in Production Environments with Caveats](https://daily.dev/posts/survey-more-ai-code-running-in-production-environments-with-caveats-93aoqq6ip) · DevOps.com · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Flux Report Examines Challenges of AI-Generated Code in Production](https://daily.dev/posts/flux-report-examines-challenges-of-ai-generated-code-in-production-b6ocvmgz0) · Embedded.com · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Enterprises know AI-generated code is vulnerable; they’re shipping it anyway](https://daily.dev/posts/enterprises-know-ai-generated-code-is-vulnerable-they-re-shipping-it-anyway-o7qxd8buy) · InfoWorld · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - 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