AI results at work
Netflix says about 300 titles used generative AI, and Endura's CEO says AI agents screened about 500 disease targets. A study of one company's AI mandate found pull requests per engineer doubled. In one survey, only 30% of marketers report significant, measurable results from AI.
The results of AI at work inside organizations, such as time saved, output, quality and cost per result, from company reports and wider studies.
October 2026
The facts
The New York Times reports a poll of nearly 6,000 senior executives: about 90 percent saw no AI impact on jobs or productivity, while 69 percent said their firms use AI.1
Anthropic says Claude writes about 90% of Claude Code's code. Merged PRs more than doubled from June to September, and the share reverted fell over 40%. It credits a change in code review.2
Google says that in its Antigravity coding platform, its engineers using Gemini 4 Argon made over 35% more agentic code submissions, with rollbacks cut by nearly a third.3
The stories
- Latent Space's Kill My SaaS draws 72 submissions to replace a conference speaker-management tool quoted at $43,000 a year; the replacement cost about $1,000.
- Anthropic says Claude writes about 90% of Claude Code's code; merged PRs doubled from June to September while the reverted share fell more than 40%.
- Meta says medical experts used a Muse scaffold over 5M licensed, de-identified EHRs to produce 10 manuscripts in two to four weeks.
- Google says Argon helped separate core webpage handling from a six-million-line legacy Chromium folder, cutting months of work to weeks; it reports 35% more agentic code submissions (internal claims).
- Anthropic reports daily merges growing from about 2,500 in May to more than 30,000 in September, then migrating its monorepo off Git in five months.
- Tom's Hardware reports AI-assisted patches cut Linux kernel build times from 22 seconds to 15.
- The New York Times reports workers spend 37% of AI's time savings fixing its output.
- Coinbase says a Qwen3.5-9B fine-tune for fraud prevention beats frontier models at lower cost and latency.
- Samaya says frontier AI models out-forecast human analysts on earnings prediction.
- Epoch launches Automation Reports testing models on its own open-ended work; Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra lead, and neither comes close to full automation.
- Airbnb's CTO says on a podcast that 60% of its code is AI-authored; Q2 results say AI resolves nearly 45% of support tickets.
September 2026
Fred Schott says agents now triage Astro's issues, and Endura's CEO says AI agents screened about 500 disease targets.
4 stories in the AI newsletters I read.
The facts
Fred Schott says agents now triage Astro's issues.1
Endura's CEO says AI agents screened about 500 disease targets.2
All 4 stories
- Endura Therapeutics' CEO says LLM research agents triaged about 500 disease targets, work he puts at about a person-year at the old rate.
- A post on X claims AI-enabled drugs reach first-in-human trials up to 80% faster.
- Astro creator Fred Schott says agents now handle issue triage, reproduction and fix checks, and the team has regained control of its backlog.
- Cognichip launches ACI Enterprise, a chip design copilot; in one reported run, one engineer did in 10 days what a team takes 4-5 months.
August 2026
In one survey, only 30% of marketers report significant, measurable results from AI.
2 stories in the AI newsletters I read.
The facts
In one survey, only 30% of marketers report significant, measurable results from AI.1
July 2026
Netflix says about 300 titles used generative AI. A study of one company's AI mandate found pull requests per engineer doubled.
4 stories in the AI newsletters I read.
The facts
Netflix says about 300 titles on its service used generative AI.1
A study of one company's AI mandate found pull requests per engineer doubled.2
All 4 stories
- A Danish study finds AI saves about 2.8% of total work time on average, without automatic business value.
- Netflix says roughly 300 titles have used generative AI, including 17 minutes of documentary footage made twice as fast at half the cost.
- A study of nearly 200,000 pull requests finds AI nearly doubled coding output while human review share fell from 89% to 68%.
- OpenAI launches Presence, an enterprise agent platform, and says its voice agents already resolve 75% of its own support line.
June 2026
Anthropic says Claude now writes over 80% of its merged code.
6 stories in the AI newsletters I read.
The facts
Anthropic says Claude now writes over 80% of its merged code.1
All 6 stories
- Vendor Glean's survey says 87% of digital workers use AI and save about 11 hours a week, but spend 6.4 hours checking it.
- Anthropic says Claude writes over 80% of its merged code and internal task success rose from 26% to 76% in six months.
- Palantir's AI Sepsis Hub at Tampa General halves sepsis deaths, saving nearly 900 lives.
- NHS England is giving 500,000 staff Copilot access, which it expects to free up 43 minutes a day.
- Stripe reportedly used Fable 5 to run a 50-million-line Ruby migration in one day, work that would take a team two months.
- Recidiviz ties its AI dashboards across 19 state prisons to a 16% drop in recidivism.
May 2026
The stories
September 2025
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