AI coding tools promise faster development, but in regulated or risk-averse organizations, increased change volume triggers an equal-and-opposite compliance reaction. Compliance processes accumulate and never roll back, meaning teams that use AI purely to ship more code often end up with the same throughput but heavier overhead. The recommended approach is to split effort roughly 50/50: use AI to generate changes faster AND to make those changes safer — for example, by intelligently triaging pull request reviews or skipping irrelevant test suites. Shipping faster without shipping safer just tightens the compliance ratchet, which never unwinds.
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It’s not a code-writing problemEvery action has a reactionThe one-way ratchetShip safer, not just fasterTags:685 Impressions