The Delivery Factory

The delivery factoryDay 1

2022 · by hand2026 · with AI

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Building the factory…

Ideas / day0.0

PRs opened / day0.0

Shipped / day0.0

Idea → prod–

Hands-on time–

Research upgrades tick one, wait, watch the red label move

AI pre-review + small PRsCode review: 8 h → 3 h per itemReview by blast radiusLow-risk PRs (70%): 8 h → 30 min per item, only risky ones (orange dot) get a full reviewAutomated tests in CIQA: 9 h → 2 h per item, bugs 25% → 10%AI-assisted product discoveryBusiness: 2.4 h → 1.2 h per item

Business Dev + AI Code review QA & testing Release

Click a machine to inspect it. Add more AI to dev and “Shipped / day” barely moves. Tick the upgrades one by one and watch the bottleneck move.

How to read it#

• Business turns ideas into tickets (yellow belt).
• Dev + AI turns tickets into pull requests (red belt). The blue beacons are the coding agents.
• Code review approves PRs (blue belt).
• QA & testing checks them. One in four becomes a bug, and the splitter sends it back to dev.
• Release ships the rest. Every ten features launch a rocket.

Switch to 2022 · by hand and the belt in front of dev backs up. Switch to 2026 · with AI and the pile moves to review and QA. Build more beacons and watch “Shipped / day”: it barely moves.

Then tick the research upgrades one at a time. Faster review moves the pile to QA. So does reviewing by blast radius: only the risky PRs (orange dot) get a full human review, the rest get a quick check. Faster QA moves it to business: now nobody has enough work. Faster business pushes it back to review. Every fix moves the bottleneck somewhere else.