The Quality Gate

The most common fear clients have is: "Won't AI just generate a mountain of garbage code that we'll have to rewrite later?" The answer is: Yes, if you let it.

The Velocity Framework prevents this through strict Quality Gating.

The Human-in-the-Loop

AI is the engine, but the human is the steering wheel and the brakes.

• Rule #1: No code enters the codebase without a human review.
• Rule #2: You must understand every line of code you commit. "The AI wrote it" is never an acceptable excuse for a bug.

Automated Gates

We use tooling to enforce quality automatically.

• Strict Linting: We run strict ESLint/Prettier rules. AI often produces code with minor syntax issues; the linter catches these instantly.
• Type Safety: We enforce noImplicitAny. The AI must strictly type all data structures.
• Test Coverage: PRs without tests are blocked.

The "Noise" Problem

AI can be verbose. It might add 5 helper functions where 1 would do.

• The Mitigation: Our engineers are trained to prompt for conciseness.
  • Bad Prompt: "Write a function to do X."
  • Good Prompt: "Write a concise, functional implementation of X. Use existing lodash helpers. Do not add new dependencies."

Seniority Matters

This is why we hire senior engineers. A junior engineer looks at AI code and thinks "It works!" A senior engineer looks at it and asks "Is this scalable? Is it secure? Is it maintainable?"