New Jul 6, 2026

Theory of constraints, AI, and code review

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No matter how much code you create, it's zero value until you ship. Writing code, building features, moving tickets, they're all vanity metrics. None of it matters until users can do something they couldn't do before.

With AI you can produce more code faster than ever before. And it doesn't matter. I bet you're still shipping at about the same speed as before aren't you?

We can see this in the data! You can feel it by looking around. Everyone talks about using AI, burning tokens, and doing work, but you rarely see people talk about getting more done at a company level.

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