When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break
6 hours ago
- #technical-debt
- #collaboration-breakdown
- #speed-prioritization
- Prioritizing speed over communication harms cross-organization collaboration and leads to future conflicts.
- Under pressure, there's less time for consensus, expert input, and resolving differing opinions.
- Feedback can be gathered without overcommitting to designs, but speed-focused environments neglect this.
- Speed prioritization discourages investment in shared systems like design systems or codebases, causing duplication and incompatibility.
- AI may accelerate work but can reduce necessary coworker collaboration, increasing future difficulties and sunk costs.
- Infrastructure aspects like documentation, security, and reliability deteriorate when moving too fast.
- Engineering management should focus on aligning teams and users, not just output or code volume.