The contrast couldn’t be clearer.
On one side, you’ve got AI divisions with over a thousand employees, bouncing between quarterly strategy shifts and drowning in coordination overhead.
Layers of management, endless meetings, digital transformation roadmaps that never quite land.
On the other, teams that fit in a single room.
Shipping weekly.
Talking to users daily.
Making decisions in real time.
Actually transforming things.
The old playbook: massive engineering orgs, long planning cycles, layers of approvals was built for stability and scale.
But AI rewards speed, simplicity, and proximity to the problem.
What wins now are the teams that stay small enough to move fast, close enough to users to learn quickly, and focused enough to build what actually matters.
No coordination tax. No politics. Just direct signal and fast execution.
In AI, size isn’t an edge.
It’s drag.
The future belongs to the fast, the flexible, and the human-sized.
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