“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.” — Blaise Pascal Because of AI, everyone on your team is more productive than they were a year ago, just ask them. So why isn’t the company itself faster? I think I know why. Let’s say an engineer needs to write a tech brief for a database migration. Two years ago, this would’ve cost him an entire afternoon: reading the code and some articles online, weighing the options, writing, deleting, rewriting. The result was short, and every word of it had survived contact with his brain. Fast forward to today, and he pastes the context into a model and hits send. A few minutes later, the agent hands back a plan several times longer than anything he would’ve written by hand. Well, he’s more productive now, right? A fraction of the time, many times the output. But what about everyone else? A handful of reviewers open a document several times longer than it needs to be, with that unmistakable AI smell on it. And the length is…
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