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AI Strategy

The bottleneck just moved. AI adoption is a reading problem, not a writing problem.

PR review time is up 91% in high-adoption engineering teams. We solved the writing problem and created a reading problem. Here's what to do about it.

Ryan Pearl April 2026 8 min read
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Leadership

Decision latency is the real AI metric, and most companies aren't measuring it

The companies that compound aren't the ones with the most AI tools. They're the ones that figured out how to make decisions faster.

March 2026 · 6 min Read →
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Teams

Senior engineers are seeing 5x productivity gains. Junior engineers aren't.

That's not an argument for cutting junior headcount. It's an argument for urgently rethinking how you develop people when AI is doing the foundational work.

March 2026 · 7 min Read →
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AI Strategy

We're building faster than we're thinking, and that's a pattern that tends to end badly

Gartner projects 40% of enterprise applications will have embedded AI agents by end of 2026. Governance frameworks are 12 to 18 months behind.

February 2026 · 9 min Read →