AI is fast but organizations are slow: the bottleneck has shifted to the weakest link
khinhooi · reddit · 2026-09-26
Drawing on Stanford economist Chad Jones' research, the author argues AI's growth impact is limited by the slowest essential step in a process — as with electricity and computers, organizations take decades to redesign workflows around new tech.
From daily work: AI generates code in minutes, analyzes thousands of logs, finds root causes — yet work still waits on release cycles, cross-team dependencies, approvals, manual configuration, and scattered knowledge. The bottleneck has shifted from "Can we solve this?" to "Can the system move fast enough?" The next competitive advantage may be removing weak links rather than having the best AI.
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