The Hidden Cleanup Cost Behind AI Coding Velocity Promises

Every marketing page for an AI coding tool leads with the same number. GitHub Copilot cites up to 55% productivity gains. Individual task studies show developers completing isolated exercises twice as fast. These numbers are real — in the specific conditions they were measured. The problem is that the conditions rarely match how software is built at scale, over time, by teams. The speed at which code is generated is only one variable in a much longer equation, and it happens to be the easiest to...