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Why policies are changing
AI-assisted coding improved throughput, but many teams saw incident risk rise when review depth stayed flat.
That led to targeted mandatory senior review for changes touching billing, auth, schema, permissions, and deployment automation.
Practical blast-radius rubric
- low: UI-only, no persistent data impact,
- medium: service logic with tested rollback,
- high: money, identity, data integrity, infra control.
Checklist that catches expensive failures
- invariant changes clearly identified,
- destructive paths guarded and tested,
- rollback rehearsed and time-bounded,
- non-happy paths tested with production-like data,
- AI-assisted scope labeled in PR.
Short note: bldrAgent Workflow Board can enforce required sign-offs and artifacts, but the same policy works in any repo workflow.