The "Verification Debt": Why AI coding is faster to write but harder to review

We’ve officially crossed the threshold where AI (Claude, Cursor, Copilot) writes more code than we do. But there’s a massive hidden cost emerging: Verification Debt. Generation speed has outpaced verification accuracy. While we can prompt a feature into existence in seconds, reviewing that code for subtle logic errors—especially cross-file dependencies—is becoming a full-time job. The Problem AI bugs are "confidently wrong." They look correct at a glance, but: They might break a service three di