Why Your AI Strategy Is Failing: The AI Paradox of Optimizing Coding Alone

Podcast: Tech Lead Journal · Henry Suryawirawan

Opublikowano: 2026-05-18

What if faster coding is actually slowing your software delivery down? Most teams are pouring AI into the coding phase, but the real bottleneck is everywhere else. In this episode, Andrew Haschka, Field CTO at GitLab for Asia Pacific and Japan, explains why most AI strategies in software engineering are failing and what it takes to fix them. He introduces the AI paradox: teams invest heavily in AI-assisted coding, yet coding accounts for less than 20% of the software delivery lifecycle, leaving the biggest bottlenecks untouched. Andrew makes the case for intelligent orchestration — moving from isolated AI...