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NoTool not named · 26 Sep 2026

Soon we rediscovered Little’s Law. WIP was piling up and we were getting overwhelmed at the integration phase, and realized that we had got really good at starting projects but actually finishing them was a struggle

bunderbunder on Hacker News

rate of generating code and committing PRs was through the roof

In the thread “One Month Without AI”

Helped: Strict WIP limits and mandatory collaboration on non-trivial projects.

Got in the way: Multitasking caused WIP pile-up and integration bottlenecks.

… Within a month we had 6 people each juggling at least two projects at a time, all the time. Soon we rediscovered Little’s Law. WIP was piling up and we were getting overwhelmed at the integration phase, and realized that we had got really good at starting projects but actually finishing them was a struggle. Tickets were moving fine, of course. …