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“Because of GenAI, coding is no longer the bottleneck” (blog.robbowley.net)
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[–] 87 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Sharing this from the article to hopefully save the post a few downvotes:

Coding was never the bottleneck. Not recently. Not in the last decade. Arguably not since we stopped feeding punchcards into machines.

Coding was never the bottleneck astronaut with gun meme

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    Kind of on the author for giving the article a clickbaity title.

    Today there’s lots of interest in “specification driven development” with GenAI as if it’s the hot new thing.

    Agree with the author — “specification driven development” is like saying cold ice cream is the hot new thing.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    I feel this so much. I started doing a rewrite of a plugin wanting to understand how it does its work and the real bottleneck is not knowing what's being done, not how to write it down

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