This Tech + Tequila session featured Alan Vargas, Account Executive at GitLab, in a conversation about how AI is reshaping software delivery and shifting where bottlenecks appear across the development process.

Using Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints as a framework, the session explored why increasing coding speed alone does not guarantee faster delivery, and why teams need to look at the entire path from idea to production.

Key topics covered:

• Identifying the real bottleneck within a software delivery system.

• Understanding how faster code generation can create downstream queues.

• Improving flow across review, testing, security, approvals, and deployment.

• Using automation to support constraints rather than overwhelm them.

• Measuring success through trusted changes shipped instead of lines of code generated.