AI Didn't Kill Agile. It Moved the Bottleneck.
Why the rise of Forward Deployed Engineering is the next agility problem — and how to scale "unreasonable agility" without it eating itself.
Why the rise of Forward Deployed Engineering is the next agility problem — and how to scale "unreasonable agility" without it eating itself.
AI coding tools can make engineering dramatically faster. That does not automatically make the business faster. The constraint often moves to deciding what is worth building, reviewing safely, getting adoption, and proving impact.
Most AI efforts are still stuck in personal productivity. The interesting shift starts when AI moves from something individuals use around the edges of the process to something that changes the process itself. This is what that shift actually looks like inside a Fortune 500 from the CTO's chair.
If your AI effort has plenty of pilots, training, tools, and output but still not enough business traction, the problem may not be AI. It may be that AI is improving the wrong part of the system.