[dasil003]

I agree with the quote as stated, but I would refactor it for a more powerful insight.

I do believe order of magnitude improvements in productivity and reliability are possible, but they don't come from technology or management technique, they come from simplicity. The simplest possible thing that gets the job done can be infinitely more reliable than whatever baroque contraption comes out of typical fog-of-war enterprise environments. The trick is having the judgement to understand what complexity is essential and how to distill things down to the most valuable essence. This is something AI will never be able to do, because the definition of value is in the eye of the human beholder.