AI coding tools flood companies with more code than they can review
AI-summarised brief · reviewed before publication
A financial services company's switch to AI tool Cursor resulted in a 10-fold increase in code production, creating a backlog of one million lines waiting for review. This surge exposed a new problem: companies generating code faster than they can manage it. The issue is spreading beyond engineering, causing stress and backlogs in other departments, and prompting workers to adapt to the new environment with AI coding courses and training.