Code got faster. Shipping still crawls.

The bottleneck moved from engineering to approval theater: PRDs, design reviews, handoffs, "syncs."

AI shaved hours off the build. It did nothing to the gatekeepers.

Most teams didn't speed up. They just made the bottleneck prettier.

This is why crypto wins. Code is law. No committees. No theater. Just execution.

The future belongs to builders who ship, not orgs that coordinate.