Stanford research across 120k developers shows median AI coding ROI of just 10%, despite millions in tool spending. The variance between teams is massive—and telling.
AI coding productivity gains evaporate at enterprise scale. Bloomberg's deployment across 9,000+ engineers reveals why platform thinking matters more than tool quality.
Kitze draws a sharp line between vibe coding and vibe engineering. The difference isn't the tool. It's whether you can judge when code is good enough. That judgment is the new core skill.
McKinsey surveyed 300 enterprises and found most stuck at 5-15% AI productivity gains. The bottleneck isn't the tooling. It's the operating model: agile ceremonies, two-pizza teams, and roles designed for a world where humans wrote all the code.