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AI-Assisted Development's Real Bottleneck: Governance, Not Code Generation
A quality manager with no coding background built a constitutional governance runtime for AI systems using only questions and AI tools. The project, CORE, comprises over 1,000 source files and enforces a strict separation between rule-setting (governor) and implementation (execution arm). The author argues that the key challenge in AI-assisted development is ensuring correctness and traceability, not generating code faster.
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This piece reframes the AI coding debate from speed to structural governance, but its single anecdote may overstate the generalizability of the governor-execution arm pattern.
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