AI Code Doesn’t Survive in Production: Here’s Why

I see a new demo every day that looks something like this: A single prompt generates a complete application. A few lines of natural language and ta-da: a polished product emerges. Yet despite the viral trends, a confusing fact endures: We aren’t seeing an increase in shipped products or the pace of innovation we expected.

A vice president of engineering at Google was recently quoted as saying: “People would be shocked if they knew how little code from LLMs actually makes it to production.” Despite impressive demos and billions in…