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Instacart's Kaushik Gopal believes that engineering was never the bottleneck; in the past the real bottleneck lay in vague business requirements and repeated deliberation between product and design, and the biggest speedup brought by AI has occurred in compliance work and legacy system upgrades, not in new feature delivery.
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10/30/2026
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