E341 - AI Widened the Highway but Nobody Rebuilt the Bridge

#341: Nobody's arguing about whether you need feature flags in 2026. That debate ended years ago. But the code flowing through those flags? That's a different story. AI is writing more of it than ever, review times are climbing, and delivery throughput has actually declined. Trevor Stuart, co-founder of Split.io and now running Feature Management & Experimentation at Harness, calls it the six-lane highway ending in a two-lane bridge.

The bottleneck didn't disappear. It moved. Coding got faster, but everything downstream -- reviews, security scans, delivery pipelines -- stayed the same width. Viktor points out this is the exact...