Dev Interrupted Nobody is shipping your agent’s code (yet) | Predictions from LinearB’s Ori Keren
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Feb 3, 2026 Ori Keren, Co-founder and CEO of LinearB and expert in engineering productivity and AI code review, predicts 2026 will be a year of norming as AI-created code floods teams. He discusses why rapid code generation creates downstream bottlenecks in reviews, testing, and CI. Topics include enterprise hesitancy around autonomous agents, risk-based pipelines, and how tooling must close the code-to-production gap.
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Norming Not Rocket Growth
- AI code generation won't deliver 2x–3x productivity gains in 2026; expect a year of norming instead.
- Real improvements will be incremental and take time to appear across the full SDLC.
Upstream Gains Lost Downstream
- Upstream velocity gains from AI are getting lost to downstream chaos in reviews and testing.
- Industry measures show more PRs but only marginal increases in releases and reduced stability.
Don't Hand Over The Keys
- Do not hand agents full deployment keys yet; enterprises must adapt workflows before full trust.
- Treat agent adoption as a workflow and governance problem, not purely a technology one.