# Building Software: Speed Counts, But Quality Matters More

DevFeed: [Building Software: Speed Counts, But Quality Matters More](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/building-software-speed-counts-but-quality-matters-more-125601.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://spin.atomicobject.com/software-speed-vs-quality/>)

Author: Jeff Williams

Published: 2026-11-09T13:00:42Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Atomic Object](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/atomic-object.md>)

Topics: [Code quality](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code-quality.md>), [engineering-leadership](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/engineering-leadership.md>), [engineering-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/engineering-culture.md>), [Claude Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/claude-code.md>), [human review](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/human-review.md>), [Business, Industry, Usability, User Experience, User Research, Web Strategy](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/business-industry-usability-user-experience-user-research-web-strategy.md>)

Tags: [about](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/about.md>), [artificial-intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/artificial-intelligence.md>), [atomic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/atomic.md>), [building](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/building.md>), [but](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/but.md>), [claude](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/claude.md>), [claude-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/claude-code.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [counts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/counts.md>), [curiosity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/curiosity.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [digital-health](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/digital-health.md>), [doesn-t](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/doesn-t.md>), [first](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/first.md>), [gap](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gap.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [i](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/i.md>), [keyboard](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/keyboard.md>), [matters](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/matters.md>), [more](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/more.md>), [quality](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/quality.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [speed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/speed.md>), [tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tools.md>)

## AI overview

Agentic tools have spread across Atomic Spin's offices, and one team estimated that tools could have shortened an eight-week, two-developer engagement to five weeks; they used the time saved to improve quality. The harder constraint is now defining the right work and verifying results. Three of four managing partners independently raised the need for shared team practices and product knowledge. In healthcare, important workflows may be undocumented, so teams need to observe clinicians and involve people with relevant care expertise; changes also need clinical, security, quality, or regulatory review suited to their risk. More engineering capacity does not expand reviewers' limited time. The article recommends clarifying who defines and reviews work, identifying non-negotiable process steps, giving teams a practical starting point, and tracking user value, quality, and speed against a baseline. It also reports concerns about agent supervision fatigue and reduced colleague interaction, while noting that only one office raised fatigue.

## Source excerpt

This summer one of our most technical people said something that raised my curiosity. He has the Claude Code subscription. He read our process document. And when he sits down at the keyboard, he still doesn't know how to start. He wasn't complaining about the document. He was describing a gap, and I wanted to [...] The post Building Software: Speed Counts, But Quality Matters More appeared first on Atomic Spin.