More code, less delivery but does the CircleCI 2026 Report really show 1 in 20 teams are benefiting?

CircleCI s 2026 State of Software Delivery report has two findings that are already travelling: AI is meaningfully boosting software delivery, but only 1 in 20 teams are capturing that benefit. Both claims are more uncertain than the report suggests, for different reasons. What the report is measuring The report s primary metric is throughput the [ ]