In this episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, Steve Fenton is joined by Octopus Deploy founder Paul Stovell to explore the hidden bottleneck in the AI productivity conversation that nobody is talking about: compliance and risk tolerance.
Everyone wants code written faster, so they are turning to AI to make it happen. But the constraint is never coding speed, it's the organization's appetite for change... and that means things are about to get more painful.
The physics of organizations means faster change generation will create an equal and opposite reaction in risk-averse environments that introduces irreversible road blocks.
Listen to find out more about:
- Why developer velocity was never the real bottleneck in regulated organizations
- The compliance ratchet: why risk requirements only ever go up, never down
- How AI could be applied to risk assessment rather than just code generation
- Why fragmented on-machine AI agents are creating a UX coherence crisis
- The product velocity bullseye and why direction matters as much as speed
- How to avoid inviting regulation by rolling out AI responsibly