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NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Writing code never has been and never will be the bottleneck. What we’re finding is that the actual bottlenecks come under a lot more pressure from all the code that is being produced.

Of course, in this case the actual operational capabilities are vastly less important than what the c-suite believes to be true, or at least what they want to protect to their shareholders.

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slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
If people can’t explain what they want their software to do to another person, how do they expect a regurgitation machine prone to hallucinations and trained on Stack Overflow questions to get it right?

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uuj8za@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Writing code never has been and never will be the bottleneck.

YES! I recently completed two code-heavy projects at work. My bosses kept asking me if I could use more AI to get the project done faster… -- and I kept telling them no! The bottleneck wasn’t my typing speed. The bottleneck was me _thinking through the design, thinking about edge cases, running experiments to validate hypothesis, testing out different API designs.

Typing out the code took like 1 day out of the 2 weeks. Code generation is not the bottleneck.

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