The AI slot machine
A lot of what gets produced now is optimised to look like thinking rather than actually be it. AI-generated posts, meeting notes, research synthesis, decision l...
May 14, 2026
Cross-functional planning used to take us 2 weeks before AI. Now AI got it to 2 hours. However, the delays seem to be exactly the same length they've always been.
Conway's Law. The org that moves slowly builds slow things. The org that doesn't trust its people finds ways to watch them (with or without AI) and now it has better tools for that. The place that measures itself by output ships more output. Whatever you already were, you're about to be more of it.
AI won't fix your organisation but it will amplify it. Before the next tool purchase, probably worth a look at what you're multiplying.

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