AI Supervision

One coding team spent 3 days fixing what should have been a 2-hour problem. They had "saved" time by having AI generate the initial implementation. But when it broke, they lost 70 hours trying to understand code they had never built themselves. The time you save upfront gets charged back with interest later. The best teams avoid this because the human engineer actually understands the code. They shaped it. They made the key decisions. The AI just handled the mechanical work of typing it out. The new constraint is: "Can we understand the code we're writing fast enough to keep moving?" Treat code review as a comprehension verification step, not just a bug-catching exercise. - Paul Sangle-Ferriere