When AI Outpaces Review: Development's New Critical Bottleneck

AI has transformed coding speed—epics completed are up 66%, PR throughput up 34%—but the review infrastructure designed for human-paced development now faces a crisis. With median review times up 441% and 31% of PRs merging unreviewed, the bottleneck has shifted from writing code to validating it. Organizations investing in intelligent risk scoring and automated review infrastructure are maintaining quality standards, while those without are seeing production incidents triple.