Every layer of review makes you 10x slower

The article argues that each additional layer of approval in an organization makes processes roughly 10x slower in wall-clock time, progressing from a 30-minute bug fix to a quarter-long wait when multiple approval layers are involved. The author contends that AI coding tools like Claude don't meaningfully fix this problem because the bottleneck is review and approval latency, not coding speed—larger AI-generated changes may even exacerbate reviewer frustration.