Your velocity went up. Your visibility went down.

~5 min read AI tools made everyone faster. Coding agents, writing assistants, research tools, design copilots — across every domain, the same thing happened: people do more in less time. More tasks touched, more changes made, more ground covered per day. That's the win everyone talks about. Here's the part nobody does: the faster you go, the less you can see about how you got there. Velocity is throughput, not memory When you did three things in a day, you could hold them in your head. What you…