AI On A Team

Part of the Vibe Coding: Advanced Engineering course

Individual productivity gains from AI are real and they do not automatically become team productivity gains. Code that is faster to write is not faster to review, and review is where most teams were already constrained. This lesson is about the system-level consequences: what actually speeds up, what silently gets worse, and which policies are worth having.

Before AI, on most teams, writing was slow and review was slower, and both were roughly matched. When writing gets several times faster and review does not, the queue forms in front of review. This is Little's law, not an opinion, and the symptoms are recognizable ...