Your 10X engineers are 0.1X-ing your org.
There’s no free lunch, not even with AI. Tesler’s Law stated this plainly for software. Complexity is conserved. You can’t remove it, you can only move it.
When your engineers ship 10X with AI, the complexity of writing the code vanish from their screen. Almost as if by magic.
But it’s not gone, it has only moved.
It moved to the code review, where reviewers are asked to approve more code than any human can read.
It moved to the architect who can’t track what’s changing this fast.
It moved to the teams who now maintain systems no human fully understand.
And when it slips past all of them, it moves to your customer.
Nobody decided this. Nobody chose where the complexity should land. It pools in surprising places all across your org and no dashboards are pointed there.
The velocity is real but so is the cost. Organizations are shipping and adopting new failure modes they can’t see.