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AdieuToLogictoday at 12:17 AM2 repliesview on HN

> That's what a good PM and developer pair should be doing, it's just that it's a lot faster for both of them now to review and work in tandem to get the feature done, because the bottleneck is the code generation.

The bottleneck is understanding, never "code generation."

Below is an an axiom which has served me well over the years. Perhaps it will for you as well.

  When making software, remember that it is a snapshot of 
  your understanding of the problem. It states to all, 
  including your future-self, your approach, clarity, and 
  appropriateness of the solution for the problem at hand. 
  Choose your statements wisely.

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imtringuedtoday at 9:31 AM

In my opinion software is a "set of decisions". If you let the AI loose, you will get software and the AI will make decisions on your behalf. Even if you read the code once for review, you probably won't know what those decisions were, until you've familiarized yourself with the code base.

satvikpendemtoday at 6:51 AM

Sometimes it is code generation, not just understanding, especially if many of the tickets are just CRUD.