Real Artists Still Ship

The legendary adage Steve Jobs deployed to push the original Macintosh team over the finish line has outlived the hardware it helped ship.

Had Apple’s software engineers been equipped with AI coding agents back in 1983, much of the work would’ve been easier to accomplish. But shipping?! That’s one thing AI isn’t a huge help with (yet).

At least not according to a new paper that studied data on more than 100k GitHub developers combined with their AI usage telemetry. Here’s the good news: