Elizabeth Ayer1d ago

I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy.

Taken as a whole, there are many bottlenecks in a corporate software development process. The "load-bearing" calendar is a great example!

Speeding up code creation just increases pressure on the bottleneck, which decreases throughput.

https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-speed-of-writing-code-was-your-problem-you-have-bigger-problems

If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems | Debugging Leadership

AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it. Writing code was already fast. The bottleneck is everything else: unclear requirements, review queues, terrified deploy cultures, and an org chart that needs six meetings to decide what colour the button should be.

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Show threadElizabeth Ayer1d ago

So why are we still trying to optimize code creation?

For decades, people with power - executives and product people - have been shifting the blame for strategy failures and poor market insight onto development "productivity."

This AI moment should be incredibly clarifying. Like, it should be the reductio ad absurdum of a productivity-centric approach.

Show threadElizabeth Ayer1d ago

The fact that we are *not* seeing wildly improving software all around us tells us everything we need to know.

There is no flourishing of value delivery, new product categories, more needs being satisfied better. It’s the opposite.

All we are seeing is decreases in quality, because 👏 code 👏 creation 👏 is not 👏 the problem.

Show threadRené Seindal9h ago

@elizayer

The problem AI is meant to solve is wages.

They don't care if quality sucks, if they can avoid paying wages.

Show threadRaymond Russell7h ago

@seindal @elizayer

Yup if they could produce code that was equal to humans but saved 50 cents they would destroy a million folks lively hood.

Show threadRené Seindal7h ago

@raymierussell @elizayer

Somebody said the the billionaires want to own what you need to survive.

Show threadRaymond Russell

@seindal @elizayer

Yeah, they don't just want the mean of production but the means of existance.

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