The Next Invisible Asymptote: Collaboration at the Speed of AI

About this session

Every company eventually runs into an invisible asymptote, a term coined by Eugene Wei describing a hidden ceiling where growth quietly flattens no matter how hard you push. In the AI era, a new one is emerging: the point where an organization's collective intelligence can't keep up with the speed of its AI. Individuals are moving 10x faster, yet that speed rarely translates into 10x more value. In racing to move faster, teams are engineering out the very friction that once built deep, shared knowledge. This talk unpacks why that friction mattered, what the best teams are doing to preserve it without slowing down, and how to use AI to accelerate the development of collective intelligence rather than trying to replace it.