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This says something about why LLMs simultaneously feel like incredible productivity enhancers and at the same time don’t have as clear of an impact on productivity in the bigger picture. It probably does increase productivity, but doesn’t widen the bottlenecks or reduce the friction of tech debt. Instead it pushes more work through the existing bottlenecks, clogging them up even more, and makes code even harder to understand as no person ever necessarily had to understand it in the first place.