Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
4 hours ago
- #quality-assurance
- #organizational-design
- #process-efficiency
- Every layer of approval in a process makes it 10x slower, primarily due to waiting time.
- AI can speed up initial coding but doesn't solve the bottleneck of slow review processes.
- Reducing review stages is necessary to speed up processes, but requires trust and quality systems to replace them.
- Quality assurance (QA) phases can paradoxically reduce quality by creating perverse incentives.
- Trust is foundational for effective systems where individuals take responsibility for quality.
- Modularity and small, trusted teams can produce high-quality components faster.
- Startups may thrive in this new paradigm due to fewer layers of review and faster iteration.
- Big companies will struggle to adapt due to ingrained slow review systems.
- Experimentation with module boundaries and refactoring can be accelerated with AI.
- The key to solving these problems lies in building trust and engineering quality from the ground up.