The Code Generation Bottleneck Is Gone. The Maintenance Bottleneck Isn't.

As AI-generated code expands across production systems, provenance becomes essential for tracing where each change originated, which model or prompt influenced it, and what evidence supports its review, ownership, and trustworthiness. AI-assisted development changes the economics of software creation. Source code can now be produced faster than many engineering organizations can review, understand, test, secure, and maintain it.