--- title: Stop Wasting AI Investment on a Broken Change Approval... description: Slow, committee-based change approval processes create bottlenecks that waste AI productivity investments. Working in small batches is the fundamental... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/stop-wasting-ai-investment-on-a-broken-change-approval-process-wzhvx9uml twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Stop Wasting AI Investment on a Broken Change Approval Process | daily.dev og:description: Slow, committee-based change approval processes create bottlenecks that waste AI productivity investments. Working in small batches is the fundamental... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/stop-wasting-ai-investment-on-a-broken-change-approval-process-wzhvx9uml og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/wZHVx9uML.png og:image:alt: Stop Wasting AI Investment on a Broken Change Approval Process og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Stop Wasting AI Investment on a Broken Change Approval Process **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 8 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Slow, committee-based change approval processes create bottlenecks that waste AI productivity investments. Working in small batches is the fundamental principle for improving software delivery throughput, quality, and compliance. Organizations should streamline change approvals through peer review, automation, and eliminating cross-team committees. When AI generates more code, existing code review bottlenecks worsen unless addressed systematically using constraint management principles: identify the bottleneck, exploit current capacity, subordinate other processes to match its pace, then elevate through smaller batches and automation. Research from DORA and decades of practitioner experience confirm that small batches and lightweight approvals deliver better outcomes than large-batch, committee-driven processes. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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