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by kaiokendev 81 days ago
> writing code was never the bottleneck

This is overly dismissive, there are many things that are possible now that weren't before because writing the code is no longer the bottleneck, like porting parts of the codebase from managed to unmanaged for teams with limited capacity. Writing code is about 1/3rd of the job. Another 1/3rd is analysis, which also benefits from AI allowing people who aren't very good at it to outperform. The final 1/3rd is-

> the effort to carefully design and implement correct solutions to real-world problems.

That's problem-solving - that part doesn't get sped up, and likely never will, reliably.