Velocity–Understanding Gap Calculator
Shipping speed and genuine understanding have decoupled. Estimate how big that gap is on your team — and what would shrink it.
Understanding is trailing delivery. A tighter review-and-explain habit would meaningfully shrink the gap.
Close the gap with Cartara →This is an illustrative heuristic to spark discussion, not a validated benchmark. The gap grows with AI-generated share and shrinks with review and comprehension rigor.
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It estimates the distance between how much AI-generated code your team ships and how much of it the team actually understands — the comprehension gap. A higher score means more shipped code is likely understood by no one.
The gap grows with the share of code that is AI-generated and shrinks with the rigor of your review and comprehension-check habits. It is a transparent heuristic meant to spark discussion, not a validated benchmark.
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