AI has changed how fast development moves. With AI coding tools, everybody is now a 10x engineer, and that applies to good engineers and bad ones alike. All that speed makes planning, strategy and leadership more important than they’ve ever been.
Good work is easy to absorb. It needs a review, a sign off, and then it gets implemented. Bad work is a different story. The review takes longer because the intent is harder to read and interpret. Then come the feedback, the changes and another review, and each of those steps takes significantly longer than it would for good work. All that incorrect, incomplete or unsecured work ends up eating the time of your good engineers, the ones who have to review it, untangle it and fix it. And now there is 10x more of it.
So the bad work should be weighted more heavily than the good. When a team can produce ten times the output, a clear direction is what decides whether that output turns into value or into rework.
Step one is a clear product strategy, so everyone knows what they’re building and why. Step two is having the right managers and team leaders in place to make sure all of the work is pointed at that goal. Those leaders set priorities, catch bad work early and keep a fast team from running in ten directions at once.
AI should replace processes, not people, and a team moving this fast needs people who can point it in the right direction. Without a clear strategy and the right leaders, you’ll end up with significantly more output, but significantly less value.
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