Cutting corners moves the work

Something I notice on the Lime bikes and delivery drivers: people cutting across other people's lanes, turning without signalling, cutting the corner they shouldn't. It saves them two seconds. It makes everyone around them slow down, swerve, recalculate.

We do the same thing at work. We vibe-code the thing and trust that it'll be right, we send that email draft chat made without reading it. We delegate the part of the path we were supposed to walk ourselves. It looks like speed. But someone still need to do the work we just skipped, the due diligence we were to lazy to do, or fix the bug that now causes actual problems in production.

==Skipping the path doesn't remove the path. It just moves it onto everyone else.==

Then nobody quite gets what they wanted, nobody feels good about it, and the whole thing takes longer than if we'd walked it properly the first time.