Article · 6 Oct 2026

The bottleneck has moved from writing code to engineering judgment

AI writes code fast. What now decides delivery speed is knowing what to build and how to hold quality at speed.

By Bharat Akkinepalli

AI coding agents have made writing code cheap. They have not made deciding what to build any easier.

What changed

Analysis and specification are now the slowest step
Review and testing must keep up with agents that write all day
Teams need guardrails that encode their standards

What we do about it

Every engagement starts with a baseline and one metric. We install the Forge Workbench so agents work inside your standards, and we measure the gain every week.

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