Most execution bottlenecks were always judgment problems.
Manual effort was doing two things at once. The slowness forced the question of whether the work deserved to exist. We called it an execution problem because execution was the last thing we could see.
AI removed the friction. The question is still there. It just has no cover now.
This is not a problem AI created. It is a problem AI made impossible to ignore.
In twenty years of regulatory work, the pattern was identical. Organizations with persistent execution problems almost never had execution problems. Nobody could say what success looked like before the project started. The execution stalled because the judgment was missing. Fixing the process never fixed the problem.
The filter was always the work. The friction just happened to enforce it.