When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break

Moving fast as an organizational priority causes communication to break down first, followed by degradation of shared systems like design systems and codebases. When speed trumps collaboration, teams diverge, duplicate work, and accumulate technical debt. AI tools worsen this by enabling developers to bypass expert conversations and avoid productive friction. The result is entrenched opinions, higher sunk costs, and harder future reconciliation. Engineering management's real job is aligning teams toward shared goals and user outcomes, not maximizing ticket throughput.