Decision Making is Your New Core Skill, So it's Critical to Avoid These Two Traps of Collaborative Decision-Making

The Bottleneck Is Moving: Borrowing from traditional manufacturing theory, the coding step used to define your team's total throughput. AI tooling hasn't incrementally improved that bottleneck — it has drastically shrunk it, which means the constraint is now upstream in product decisions, specifications, and prioritization. Engineers who recognize this shift early will redirect their energy accordingly. Sharing Your Opinion Is Not a Free Action: Every time you weigh in on a decision, you're making a transaction. You're asking others to consider your input, and in return, they will update their beliefs about your judgment based on whether you turn out to be...