Your pipeline is the bottleneck

Developers can generate more code than ever, yet most teams are not shipping any faster because the constraint moved downstream to code review, testing, and integration. Cory Lucas, Principal Engineer at American Express, explores what actually breaks when AI-assisted development scales across an org and what to fix first: splitting work into small commits and PRs so review actually happens, using AI as a first-pass reviewer before humans see the diff, reaching for deterministic tooling like OpenRewrite and Moderne for repetitive cross-repo changes, and the test coverage, ephemeral environments, and trunk-based development practices that keep main releasable.