The Verification Tax
About this session
AI can now generate code faster than any team can competently review it. That gap has a cost, and most teams are paying it without naming it, the verification tax. Reviewers rubber-stamp volume they cannot absorb, subtle AI-specific defects slip through, and “productivity” quietly converts into downstream rework. This talk names the tax, shows where it accumulates, and explains why traditional code review breaks under AI-scale output. You will leave with concrete tactics, scoping generation, spec-first workflows, review gates that let a team capture AI’s speed without shipping what it cannot vouch for.
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Key takeaways
- Start tracking rework rate, not just how fast AI-assisted code ships, but how much of it comes back for fixes, since that's the number that actually reveals whether you're capturing AI's speed or just moving the cost downstream
- Solid Ideas on how to catch up with AI speed for code generation