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What breaks when AI-generated code reaches production systems

This article explores the quality bottlenecks introduced by AI-assisted development, emphasizing that cheaper code makes engineering judgment more valuable. It identifies where quality actually breaks: at integration boundaries, trust edges, retries, observability, and governance. It provides a practical sequence for moving from code generation to production readiness, warning that velocity metrics are misleading when code is cheap.

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  • AI makes code cheaper, but engineering judgment becomes more precious.
  • Quality breaks at boundaries: authentication quirks, pagination edge cases, partial failures, and retries.
  • The correct sequence: proven components → Twelve-Factor baseline → annotation discipline → AI-assisted implementation → tests and monitoring → staged rollout.
  • Demos are not enterprise systems; production requires approvals, policy boundaries, auditability, and failure recovery.

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