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by apf6 19 days ago
Slowing down development is the wrong goal. I see a desire for slowness come up a lot with developers. If you pursue that goal all the way to its logical conclusion then eventually you would stop all coding completely. Which would prevent new bugs but obviously we can't do that and keep our jobs.

By all means add tons of quality gates to your SDLC pipeline. But thinking about slowness purely for the sake of slowness will not solve your problems.

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If AI makes code a commodity, then why is the prescription for everyone to ship even more code even more urgently?

My gut reaction, as a professional developer, to my (previous) company's AI mandates was an instinctive "wait but..." -- it didn't logic out to me. Now that I have much more AI experience under my belt, I understand the tension, it's a superpower and net-net ok so more features and more "stuff" will be built. But it's a very hard thing to balance. It's always been a bad idea for a company to position themselves as the one with more "stuff" in it.