The AI Amplification Problem No One Wants to Talk About

AI coding tools amplify existing team weaknesses rather than fixing them. Teams with poor code review, fuzzy accountability, or undocumented components will produce more of those problems faster. The real ROI from AI isn't faster execution of the same work — it's changing the ambition of what gets planned. Success looks like engineers spending more time thinking and directing AI, less time typing, with clear ownership and a shared definition of 'done' established before any AI tooling is introduced.