Perspectives

Most enterprise engineering organizations are not deciding whether to adopt AI coding agents anymore. That decision is already behind them. What they are actually deciding, often without realizing it, is whether the velocity those agents produced in the first two quarters holds up once the codebase, the team count, and the audit scrutiny all grow at the same time. This piece walks through what has to be true for that velocity to hold, section by section, starting with where specification actually belongs in your delivery lifecycle.

Encompass's single-user-per-file limitation creates processing bottlenecks that scale badly with volume. The UI, broadly described in review platforms as a Windows 95 experience, generates consistent friction for loan officers and underwriters. Administrative configuration is deep, brittle, and expensive: lenders routinely carry high admin-to-loan-officer ratios just to maintain Encompass stability.

Ambient clinical documentation is a passive voice capture system that converts a clinical encounter into a structured EHR note without physician dictation or manual data entry. The pipeline moves from audio capture through ASR into an LLM that extracts clinical intent, and terminates in an EHR write-back that populates discrete structured fields. The compliance, integration, and governance architecture around that pipeline determines whether the system reaches production.