Faster Code, Slower Delivery: The AI Productivity Trap

What does it really take to deliver software at global scale in the world’s most regulated industries?

In the premiere episode of Released: The Story Behind the Software, Digital.ai CEO Derek Holt sits down with Eric Baran — who leads developer platform and Gen AI for Amazon Web Services’s global financial services business — for a wide-ranging conversation on AI, agentic workflows, and what enterprise software delivery actually looks like in 2026.

The takeaway most people aren’t talking about: writing code faster is only a small part of the story. For the world’s largest banks, insurers, and financial institutions, the real bottlenecks live in the release pipeline, in governance, in security — and AI is starting to change all of that.

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