Your AI writes code faster than you can review it. Now what?

Short summary

Modern AI code generation has created a new bottleneck: code now outpaces human review capacity, forcing teams to choose between losing speed gains to review backlogs or shipping unvetted changes. The post proposes Graduated Review Authority (GRA), which scales review rigor based on change risk and the strength of automated validation—with critical categories like authentication, payments, and regulated data always requiring human review. This framework makes review authority explicit and consistent, balancing the speed gains from AI generation with the safety rigor that critical changes demand.

• •AI code generation speed now exceeds human review capacity, creating a delivery bottleneck
• •Graduated Review Authority (GRA) scales review rigor based on change risk and automated validation strength
• •Critical changes (auth, payments, regulated data) always require human judgment; trivial changes are expedited

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