Decision making is the new bottleneck

18 Jun 2025 · 1 min
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A spoken excerpt from Lenny Rachitsky's YouTube video arguing that decision making and alignment are the primary upstream bottlenecks in software development; downstream bottlenecks then appear during engineering (coordination, edge cases) and shipping. The speaker predicts that current workflows for building and shipping software will change substantially within about a year because current processes are painful.

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