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by nkrisc 16 days ago
Realistically, has the volume of code that can be produced ever been the bottleneck? In every job I’ve ever had, it was never that the devs couldn’t write enough code fast enough, it was everything else that slowed them down, mostly other people.
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7 years ago my biggest bottle-neck was waiting for a tester to test my code. Fast forward to now, my biggest bottle-neck is waiting for a tester, and my team-mates using AI to generate mega-patches that they don't bother testing is just making it worse.
n=1 but every job i've ever been at was time to code was like 10 or 15% of available time; its all the useless meetings/busywork caused by corporate structure and bad specs etc

llm's cant solve your organization issues...