verification-gap

The Big Bang: A.I. Has Created a Code Overload

One financial services company went from 25,000 to 250,000 lines of code per month after adopting Cursor: a 10x output increase that produced a 1M-line review backlog nobody could clear. The NYT frames this as "code overload," but the real signal is a phase change: the bottleneck in software development has permanently shifted from production to verification. Every enterprise that adopted AI coding tools without a matching verification architecture just 10x'd its attack surface and called it productivity.