“Most organisations are simply not prepared to make that kind of commitment in time, effort and money.”

High-performing teams using AI were already high-performing without it; low-performing teams actually slow down with AI. The differentiator isn’t skill or compensation but whether teams have eliminated process bottlenecks. Successful teams work in small batches with continuous feedback loops, designing, testing, and merging multiple times hourly rather than every few days. Building this capability requires 20-25% of the entire development budget over several years, and most companies won’t commit to that.