Development Teams Cannot Track AI vs Human Code Authorship in Their Codebase
As AI coding tools become widespread, engineering teams have no way to measure what proportion of their codebase was generated by AI versus written by humans, making it impossible to govern AI adoption, satisfy emerging compliance requirements, or audit code provenance for security and liability purposes. The growing body of AI-generated code in production systems is invisible from an authorship perspective.
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