Benjamin Bouvier 🥐1d ago

Wow. One of the most relevant blog posts I've read about AI coding for a long time: If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem, you have bigger problems.

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

Rings quite a few bells here.

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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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@bnjbvr It actually sounds like this is describing a long term issue in software that AI is just the most recent attempt at a quick fix for, because the actual solutions are, as the author admits, kind of boring and unglamorous.

I've never worked in software, but the case of 'the bottleneck is at station C but management just did something to make station A more productive instead even though it seems pretty obvious that C needs the help' is very familiar. Not sure if it would predate AI in the software or tech industries, but in others it definitely does.

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