The Factory That Thinks
People think AI will make software development faster. They imagine developers writing code with AI assistants. They picture teams shipping features in less time. This intuition feels right, but it misses something. AI does not just make development faster. It changes what development means. The way of building software centered on programmers. You hired people, gave them requirements, and measured their output. Story points per sprint. Lead time from requirement to deployment. Cycle time from start to finish. These metrics made sense when humans did all the thinking. Now we have AI agents that can write features. These agents work differently than humans. They do not get tired. They do not forget context. They do not have days off. But they also do not understand what they are building the way humans do. This creates a problem. Your AI can generate code for the wrong thing faster than any human ever could. Metrics cannot catch this failure mode because they measure output, not ali...