AI-Driven Spec Output Outpaces Team's Code Review Capacity
A developer describes management mandating a 2x AI-driven productivity target, which pushed the team toward spec-driven development producing large specs, plans, and merge requests (thousands of lines) that teammates refuse to review as "too much," even though activity logs show they never actually opened the documents. Both a full-detail version and a heavily distilled version of the same work were rejected, revealing a structural mismatch between how much AI-assisted developers can now produce and how much a team can realistically review and absorb.
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