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You Got Faster. Your Company Didn’t.

The article argues that AI has increased individual work speed, but overall productivity hasn't improved because the time saved by one person is often shifted as a burden or bottleneck onto others in the company.

Background

- The article argues that individual productivity gains from AI tools (e.g., coding assistants like GitHub Copilot) don't translate into company-wide productivity because upstream bottlenecks—code review, QA, compliance, legal sign-off—still move at human speed. One person writes code faster, but the rest of the pipeline hasn't sped up.

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