Matt RobinsonIf AI is getting so good at software, why isn't it getting more reliable and secure?
I'm far from the first person to say some form of this, but this has been the thought popping up most in my brain lately. I obviously have thoughts as to why also, but it's complicated and there's a lot of reasons, and I'm honestly not sure what the biggest contributions are.
For me the biggest contributor to why AI doesn't speed me up much is that the bottleneck to shipping software is almost never how fast I write the code, so speedups there rarely amount to much.
The biggest bottleneck changes day to day, but can include: motivation, deploy time, CI flakiness, dev env issues, poor sleep the night before, reading the news and feeling angry and hopeless, meetings interrupting my flow, not really caring about the task, getting code review from people, etc, etc