3 articles in Continuous Delivery
Median time from PR opened to first review is 22 hours. That is not review effort — it is system latency. Here is what it costs, why it happens, and what elite teams do differently.
The cost arbitrage that made outsourcing attractive has flipped. Three disciplined engineers with AI agents now outship 15-person outsourced teams — at a fraction of the cost, with measurably higher quality.
Most engineering transformations fail not because the team lacks skill, but because they defer improvement to a rewrite that never finishes. Here is how the rewrite trap works, why it compounds, and what to do instead.