AI Made Implementation Faster. Verification Is Still the Bottleneck

AI made implementation dramatically faster. Trust did not. I live in two different worlds now. In one, I build my own projects with AI and ship software than ever. I have written software in the last two years than across the rest of my career, and I have barely written any code manually in the last year. In the other, I lead engineering for software used by banks, governments, and other regulated environments, where mistakes are expensive and confidence matters than speed. In both worlds, I keep hitting the same wall: Implementation got dramatically faster.