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The Verification Gap

August 21, 2026 · AI code governance in federal software

Developers have adopted AI coding tools almost universally while trusting them less than they did a year ago, and only about half consistently review what those tools produce. In commercial engineering that mismatch costs a bad quarter. In federal software it lands on the authorization package. Why SBOMs cannot close the gap, why provenance labeling answers the wrong question, and why the adoption problem is a trust problem before it is a tooling problem.

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