Your AI Can Code It in 3 Minutes. Your Team Still Ships It in a Week.

Tailscale's CEO just dropped a post on Hacker News that hit 362 points in hours. The claim is simple and brutal. Every layer of approval makes a process 10x slower. Not 2x. Not 3x. Ten times. And he's counting wall-clock time, not effort. The Math That Hurts 🧮 Here's the math. You code a bug fix in 30 minutes. Getting it peer reviewed takes 5 hours. Getting a design doc approved takes a week. Getting it on another team's calendar takes a quarter. Each step multiplies the last by 10. AI Made It Worse, Not Better Now throw AI into the mix. Claude writes your fix in 3 minutes instead of 30. Cool. You saved 27 minutes. But the reviewer still takes 5 hours. And now they're annoyed because you didn't even read the code yourself before sending it over. The data backs this up. A 2025 Faros AI study of 10,000 devs found that engineers using AI tools completed 21% more tasks and merged 98% more PRs. But review time jumped 91%. LinearB's benchmarks show AI-generated PRs wait 4.6 times longer befo