Developer Tea
Developer Tea
Jonathan Cutrell
Why Can't You Go Faster With AI? Focus on the Friction to Find Out
19 minutes Posted Jun 24, 2026 at 7:00 am.
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The skills you spent years building are getting cheaper to replicate—but that's not where the friction lives. In this throwback episode, I unpack why agentic coding hasn't made your team faster, and why the answer is the oldest model in the book: the theory of constraints. If you're a manager or a senior engineer being asked "why can't this go faster," this one's for you.