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.

#engineering #aicoding

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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@bnjbvr I'm sad how much sense this makes! Since I retired at the start of the pandemic from a 20-year career building Web applications for an academic research division, I missed having to wrangle with AI - prompts, code, or sycophancy. But having been insulated throughout my career due to the non-existent managerial layer (PMs were on to the next research job by the time I had data to work with, and I generally had to invent requirements) I had no idea that the screwed-up chain from no specifications to no user testing or feedback is the same when actual profit is involved! This makes me feel a bit better about my career, and a WHOLE lot more solid about all my reservations concerning AI.
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