Developers expected AI to make them 24% more productive. In large codebases, AI users actually took 19% longer. So what’s going wrong?
In this IBM Dev Day keynote, Michael Kwok and Max make the case that the real bottleneck isn’t code generation — it’s the invisible layer of security policies, compliance rules, and legacy dependencies that AI can’t see yet. They introduce Bob as an SDLC partner, then demo the complete developer journey live: onboarding to a new codebase, planning a feature, implementing across backend and frontend, catching bugs in code review, and shipping a pull request.
🔹 What you’ll see: — Why AI coding assistants stall at enterprise scale — Three approaches: build yourself, assemble a toolchain, or adopt an SDLC partner — Bob’s origin: 80,000+ IBMers, 45% average productivity gain — Live demos: onboarding, plan-before-build with a “grill me” skill, multi-phase implementation, code review, and shipping to GitHub — Customer results: Maximo (55% gain), Concert (93…