PM: AI made all 8 of us faster with Claude Code, but shipping didn't speed up
Correct_Taro_589 · reddit · 2026-10-20
A PM at a transportation company reports that after adopting Claude Code and GitHub Copilot, all 8 team members (PMs, engineers, data scientists, QA) got individually faster — yet overall delivery time stayed flat. The bottleneck moved downstream: QA is now backed up, and the team still loses time on back-and-forth caused by missing context and unclear requirements. A concrete case of individual productivity gains being absorbed by system-level bottlenecks; the author asks whether other teams see the same.
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