> I was not merely stating other bottlenecks. I'm saying they're more important bottlenecks.
This is a pointless statement though. The fact that writing code is a bottleneck, and a critical one, doesn't mean it's the only thing standing between us and fixing/implementing something.
It's like downplaying the time taken by international flights, because people can spend time passing through security.
The truth of the matter is that all software development processes is built around how slow code is written. Now code is ceasing to become a bottleneck and the current software dev process starts to emerge as inadequate.
> Now code is ceasing to become a bottleneck and the current software dev process starts to emerge as inadequate
If you say so. It's a honeymoon period for executives and a lot of them already got a lot of cold showers. It's just a very uncomfortable topic but it is already happening. Maybe not in your org but I am seeing it already.
I am not against the new reality even if it were to solidify (which it will not; productivity gains as sold are illusory and plateau VERY quickly; we're talking days -- and contrary to what many on HN believe, not all work is pitch decks and rapid prototypes).
I really like the acceleration and removal of dumb grunt work. I love it. But the current LLMs, even Codex and Opus, _are_ doing dumb stuff even on max effort still. People get hyped up and overshoot as they always do.
It must be said that I've used Opus for some pretty high-level and high-quality architectural work and it did very well -- but it took a lot of effort and steering, leaving me questioning whether I wouldn't have the done planning and scoping better and quicker.
Frontier LLMs do very well but people give them too much credit IMO.
No, it is not pointless to say other things are more important. An order of importance is how you prioritize things.
You're asserting that it is critical. Why is code change speed critical?
What is your analogy getting it? It does not map to my argument evidently.
You're asserting it is slow code that has evolved our development process. Why? It used to be correctness and appropriateness. How is it suddenly speed?
Bottleneck for what?