Speed Is a Tactic, Not a Virtue

Christina Wodtke · 21 Mar 2026

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When AI lets everyone go fast, shipping code faster is only a temporary advantage.

Their wordsSpeed and scale get held up as goals, when they’re actually strategic choices. (I’ll address scale in a later post.) When AI lets everyone go fast, going fast isn’t an advantage — unless the way that you’re getting fast is getting smarter as a company faster than your competitors, or building a user base faster. Shipping code faster is a very temporary advantage.

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