alt Hacker NewsYou're only as fast as your biggest bottleneck. Adding AI to an existing organization is just going to show you where your bottlenecks are, it's not going to magically make them go away. For most companies, the speed of writing code probably wasn't the bottleneck in the first place.
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Agreed. The bottleneck is QA/Code review and that is never going away from most corps. I've never worked at a job in tech that didn't require code review and no, asking a code agent to review a PR is never going to be "good enough".
And here we are, the central argument for why code agents are not these job killing hype beasts that are so regularly claimed.
Has anyone seen what multi-agent code workflows produce? Take a look at openclaw, the code base is an absolute disaster. 500k LoC for something that can be accomplished in 10k.
In high-performance teams it is. In bike-shedding environments of course it is not.
This. The key bottleneck in many organizations is the "socialize and align" on what to build. Or just "socialize and align" in general. :)
one thing that aways slowed me down was writing jsdocs and testing.
Now i can write one example of a pass and then get codex to read the code and write a test for all the branches in that section saves time as it can type a lot faster than i can and its mostly copying the example i already have but changing the input to hit all the branches.
the amount of people that work in technology and have never heard of amdahl's law always shocks me
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law
a 100% increase in coding speed means I then I get to spend an extra 30 minutes a week in meetings
while now hating my job, because the only fun bit has been removed
"progress"