Regardless of the underlying issue, I don't agree with:
> negating the entire point of using AI to begin with
I can almost certainly wash dishes faster than my dishwasher, but the dishwasher frees me up to do other things. Not to mention, you can run many agents in parallel. Resulting in your overall code production throughput (the issue you're raising) being greater.
> Not to mention, you can run many agents in parallel. Resulting in your overall code production throughput (the issue you're raising) being greater.
AI isn't a dishwasher: Context switching among multiple tasks has a huge cost; when a model is 10-20x faster it allows for deep focus into complicated tasks.