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A study followed 3 agile teams for 13 months after GenAI arrived. Throughput rose 59%, the activity graph stayed flat and the bottleneck moved exactly…
Aug 11
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Your bottleneck doesn't burn tokens
AI usage mandates put a jetpack on the one step of delivery that was already fast. Goldratt named the mistake in 1984, and the token dashboard is now…
Aug 4
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July 2026
In the loop. Not in the room
A model in your delivery pipeline is two things at once, a build lever and an architectural mirror. But what share of its work you ship without redoing…
Jul 28
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Steer, don't sequence
Architecture, teams, and AI capability pull on each other like three gravitating masses. You do not sequence a system like that. You steer it.
Jul 21
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AI-ready is not AI-native
Most AI transformations buy a structure that can hold AI, call it one built around AI and pay AI-native money for the privilege.
Jul 14
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One program, not three
Architecture modernization, teams and AI move together, or you pay for the same migration twice.
Jul 7
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June 2026
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What The Recovering CTO is about, and what to expect.
Jun 8
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