[beatboxrevival]

I think they are suggesting that you can focus on the code that you want to write - whatever that is. Especially since the first line is, "Jules does coding tasks you don't want to do." I took the first image as being someone working on the computer. Or, take back your time doing whatever you want - e.g. cycling, table tennis, etc.

[antihipocrat]

All of the work that currently gets pushed back with 'no capacity maybe in Q+2' will become viable and any brief moment of spare capacity will immediately be filled.

A new backlog will start to fill up and the cycle repeats.

[hamandcheese]

Maybe, though, the backlog of the future will actually be less important than the backlog of today? Bug fixes will go out, software quality will increase?

I doubt it, but one can dream.

[antihipocrat]

That's a possibility, perhaps only the very challenging work remains.

[spacechild1]

> Or, take back your time doing whatever you want - e.g. cycling, table tennis, etc.

That might be true for hobbyists or side projects, but employees definitely won't get to work less (or earn more). All the financial value of increased productiveness goes to the companies. That's the nature of capitalism.

[beatboxrevival]

I don't think it's meant to be literal, more tongue-in-cheek. Obviously, developers aren't going to be playing table tennis while they wait for their task to finish. Since it's async, you can do other things. For most developers, that's just going to mean another task.