As a programmer, I wish I could help people understand that the fastest part of any project is writing the code...

Non-programmers always want to throw more code writers at a project to speed things up. The "Mythical Man Month" problem aside,

the bottlenecks are all the legwork involved in defining the problem, the scope of this particular task, and fully testing it.

Even before AI, writing code was fast and we already have a lot of tools to crank it out...if we're clear on *what* to crank out.

This is prolly true in all fields, this difference in understanding between the people who actually work in a field, and the people who are adjacent to that field.