If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you’re not managing quality right
2026-09-30
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Iouri Khramtsov answers the familiar worry that coding agents mean worse code with seven defensive layers seen working "both on my team and elsewhere": AI review of the requirements in spec-driven development, unit tests above 95% coverage planned before the code, manual testing, automated end-to-end tests, separate AI passes for specific quality problems, pull-request reviews by humans and AI, and monitoring and alerting in production. With those in place, Khramtsov writes, "it's entirely possible to double the delivery speed while keeping the bugs under control". The doubling is Khramtsov's own judgement, not a measurement.
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