Why Can't You Go Faster With AI? Focus on the Friction to Find Out
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Why Can't You Go Faster With AI? Focus on the Friction to Find Out

June 24, 202619 min

If you are a manager, a lead engineer, or anyone growing into more responsibility, this throwback episode is built for you. We keep hearing the same question, now louder than ever: "Why can't this go faster?" AI and agentic coding have made the literal coding step dramatically cheaper, so product leaders reasonably expect the whole pipeline to speed up. But it hasn't—and in today's short, focused episode I explore why. The answer isn't new at all. It's the theory of constraints, and it has everything to do with friction you may not be looking at. Speed Isn't th...

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