Delivery Slowdown in AI-Generated Codebases — Why...

"Six months ago, we shipped features in two days. Now a single change takes two weeks." If you've built an application with AI tools — Cursor, Lovable, Bolt.new, Replit, v0 — and you're past the first few months of development, there's a good chance your delivery speed has declined. Not gradually. Sharply. This is not a team problem. It's a structural one. The Mechanism: Verification Debt Every AI session optimizes for the immediate task. "Fix the checkout bug" — the fix goes where the symptom i