Why faster typing rarely produces faster delivery

Short summary

Software delivery is a multi-stage system—define, decide, build, connect, prove, release—where coding is only one stage. Most delivery delays come from unclear requirements, approval queues, cross-team dependencies, late validation, and ambiguous ownership, not from typing speed. AI coding tools and more engineers only help when coding is the actual constraint; otherwise they push more work into the same bottlenecks faster.

• •Delivery is a system with six stages; only one is about typing code
• •Bottlenecks are usually clarity, approvals, dependencies, validation, and ownership
• •AI coding tools accelerate output but don't fix systemic delivery queues

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