Industry survey6 min readSample
Verification, not generation, emerges as the primary bottleneck in software teams
A survey of engineering organisations reports that reviewing machine-written code now consumes more time than the writing it replaced.
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Agitology analysis
Why it matters
This is the mechanism by which a high coding score fails to translate into economic gain, and it generalises: wherever verification is expensive, capability gains are absorbed rather than realised.
Key developments
- Review time exceeds displaced writing time in a majority of surveyed teams
- Net productivity gain smallest where correctness requirements are strictest
- Teams report reallocating senior engineers toward review
Index impact
How this development moved — or failed to move — the dimensions it bears on.
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