AI Accelerated Software Development. It Did Not Accelerate Engineering Judgment
AI Accelerated Software Development. It Did Not Accelerate Engineering Judgment. If you have used Claude Code, Codex, or GitHub Copilot recently, you have probably experienced something that would have felt impossible two years ago. A feature that used to take a week can now appear in minutes. A CRUD API? Generated. An authentication flow? Generated. A React frontend connected to a database? Generated. AI has fundamentally changed the cost of writing software. But it has not changed the cost of deciding whether that software should be trusted. That distinction is becoming one of the biggest hidden risks in healthcare engineering. The New Bottleneck Traditional software development looked like this: Write code → Review code → Ship AI-native development increasingly looks like this: Generate code instantly → Review everything manually → Ship The first step became 10-100x faster. The second step barely changed. Security reviews still take time. Architecture reviews still take time. HIPAA ...