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Something strange is happening on your team right now.
Pull requests are moving faster. Sprint velocity looks great. Your engineers seem productive and your stakeholders are happy. But when a production incident happens (and it will) you’re going to discover that nobody actually understands the system they built. Not deeply. Not in the way that lets someone trace a cascading failure across three services at 2am.
This is the comprehension gap, and it’s growing on every team that’s adopted AI-assisted development without thinking about what they’re trading away.
The speed you’re measuring isn’t the speed that matters
When your team…