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

The skills you spent years building are getting cheaper to replicate—but that's not where the friction lives. In this throwback episode, I unpack why agentic coding hasn't made your team faster, and why the answer is the oldest model in the book: the theory of constraints. If you're a manager or a senior engineer being asked "why can't this go faster," this one's for you.