AI hasn’t shifted the bottleneck from coding to code review
The New Stack Steve Fenton
The article argues that AI tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot have not actually shifted the software development bottleneck from coding to code review, because the real constraint lies downstream in deployment and release processes. Research from Octopus Deploy shows 92% of teams ship code in batches of 2 to 50 changes rather than deploying individual changes, with changes accumulating after code review. Addressing this deployment bottleneck, not code review speed, is where organizations should focus to realize benefits from AI-assisted coding tools.
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Why we’ve stopped noticing the real improvement opportunity Since AI arrived, many people have mentioned that the bottleneck has shifted The post AI hasn’t shifted the bottleneck from coding to code review appeared first on The New Stack.
