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EdNuttingyesterday at 11:03 AM2 repliesview on HN

This thread seems to have re-identified Amdahl’s law in the context of software development workflow.

Agentic coding is only speeding up or parallelising a small part of the workflow - the rest is still sequential and human-driven.


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james_marksyesterday at 2:56 PM

This is 100% the new bottleneck. We’re going to see a lot agentic QA, E:E testing, etc soon for this reason.

cyanydeezyesterday at 2:05 PM

And its abstracted as

Mythical Man Month -> Mythical Agent Swarm