[embedding-shape]

> Large enterprises need to learn how to ship software faster

They haven't even learned that "less code is better" yet, I wouldn't hold my breathe waiting for them to suddenly learn "more advanced" things like that before they learn the basics.

[forinti]

More code means more support and more maintenance. If your team is already overloaded or if it's going to be reduced because of AI, things are going to get tough.

[lxgr]

My bigger concern is actually that, if a company isn't careful, the bloat (complexity, amount of code, other artifacts etc.) will just balloon and largely cancel out any gains.

Feedback is often only considered once something is already on fire (financially, functionally, or literally).

[nkrisc]

That’s the game plan for the AI companies: once companies have massive codebases of critical AI generated code and a skeleton crew of prompt engineers they’re going to be locked in to the AI product to develop anything new.

They’re not even selling shovels, they’re selling subscriptions for shovels.

[lxgr]

I don't think there needs to be any intentional evil scheme for this dynamic to be worth considering and mitigating.

For example, there's also no cabal behind memory prices dropping (ignoring the development of the past months, of course), which in turn enabled web and game developers to use more memory and make their software non-viable on older devices.

[dawnerd]

Exactly. Everyone keeps talking about how much velocity they have with AI but no ones talking about quality for bugs that come from it. Just how fast they can ship.

[Ekaros]

Or building what is actually needed or makes sense. Most efficient investment is one you do not have to make...

[darth_avocado]

From the article:

> The whole thing dies if it turns into employee scoring

All ICs know this and some management does, but I’m willing to put money that it will 100% become employee scoring.

[arkh]

With the factory allegory: code is stock. Stock costs and is a liability hence Lean manufacturing.

[jen20]

Worse: it's typically work in progress.