YHK - yet another hacker news clone

Now we have the added benefit of nobody understands it.

The communication skills to create the synchronized understandings necessary for teams of any moderate size to operate in concert is not there. Communications are everything when it comes to collaborations at any level, and we as an entire civilization are weak at this aspect. This effective communication necessity.

The more code, the more worry; the more workers, the more theft; the more AI, the more sorcery; the more flesh, the more worms.

The ancients knew it all along!

That also is dependent on the company and who works there. Some companies are meeting heavy. A meeting for every little decision. Some are not. Some are paperwork heavy and you need to fill out the form to do anything. Coding is like the 4th or 5th on the list of things that get done. Handed to the most jr of devs to 'just figure it out'. Some companies are just not software companies but they have enough of it that they needed but do not care about it. They only care enough to get their hardware out the door. AI in this case only changes when software is done and how. Not all of that other stuff. Such as have you checked in today during your standup and that your story is progressing?

>> coding was never the bottleneck

What utter twaddle.

I’m old enough to remember pre AI programming and it very very much was the bottleneck.

  For some years I have been successfully using the following rule of thumb for scheduling a software task:
    l/3 planning
    l/6 coding
    l/4 component test and early system test
    l/4 system test, all components in hand.

bottlenecks constantly change. every time you fix one, a new one emerges. coding is and isnt the bottleneck depending on your organization at that snapshot in time. It often was, and often was not

This is just like in woodworking and jig making. Sure you can buy a pre-made jig, but you can now just 3D print (vibe code) one that's good enough and is uniquely made for the way you work.

Does this mean that jig makers out there are out of business? Sort of, they need to sell jigs complex enough that you wouldn't want to / be capable of making.

The most productive individuals were already doing that before, maybe they were "just" scripting, doing macros, going to training on how to extend their workflow. The most productive individuals didn't wait for AI to bother IT by explaining how THEIR very unique situation was special and they needed that one special tool nobody else wanted. They were already using FLOSS tools or heck even had a budget dedicated for a dev to help them precisely because they care. Nothing changed for them ... but for those who wanted to emulated them and never dared, maybe those do have now an excuse to try.