AI review debt is the bottleneck nobody's measuring

Short summary

AI coding tools generate PRs 10x faster, but review capacity hasn't scaled proportionally, creating unmeasured "AI Review Debt" that overwhelms senior engineers. Teams celebrate PR volume while the real bottleneck—review speed—stalls. Fix it: measure review queue depth separately from lead time, set explicit capacity limits, and invest in AI-assisted review tooling with the same energy spent on code generation.

• •AI generates more PRs than reviewers can handle, creating hidden bottlenecks
• •Review capacity constraints are invisible in traditional metrics like lead time
• •Solutions: measure review queues separately, set capacity limits, automate reviews

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