The ROI nobody talks about
Time spent learning looks like time not spent shipping, right up until somebody runs the numbers on what it compounds into.
People get ridiculed for spending their week learning AI instead of doing the work. Here is the math nobody runs.
Some weeks I spend more time learning new tools than doing the work itself. And the work I do in what is left is a multiple of what a full week used to produce.
The learning is not overhead. It is the compounding. Each tool I absorb raises the ceiling on every week after it. The people who refuse to spend that time are optimizing the wrong number: hours that look busy, not output that ships.
Lean teams win here. A small group that has actually mastered the tools beats a big group that has not. Money gets saved and the work gets better. That is the trade most companies have not made yet.