If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems | Debugging Leadership
2026-03-31
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A Theory of Constraints take on AI coding assistants. If you speed up code writing but code review capacity stays flat, you don't get faster delivery -- you get a pile-up. Unreviewed PRs stack up, context switches multiply, review quality drops, and lead times actually get worse. Speeding up the wrong part of the pipeline makes the whole thing slower.
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