The Three Bottlenecks AI Can't Code Away

TL;DR AI writes nearly half of all new code, but teams aren't shipping faster. The bottleneck moved from writing code to coordination, governance, and review. GraphQL Federation addresses all three with clear ownership, async governance, and schema-level usage tracking. AI now generates roughly 40–45% of all new code, according to recent developer surveys on AI-assisted coding (Sonar State of Code Developer Survey ) . Teams with high AI adoption have merged nearly 2× more pull requests year over