Does AI Speed Up Development? Using the UKs GDS Service Standard as framework

The author argues that AI mainly accelerates coding, which is only one part of digital service development, and uses the UK GDS Service Standard's 14 points to assess where AI actually helps. The tally is roughly 2 high-impact points (open source code and open standards, both code-heavy), 6 partial or mixed, and 6 low or none, with bottlenecks remaining in user research, organisational change, governance and procurement. The post concludes that speeding up the build step without widening the real bottleneck just moves the queue, and suggests the evolving Service Standard as a place to build evidence on AI's impact.