Most people glorify AI for its speed.
AI spits out code faster than any of us, with just a few magic words. Beep, beep, boop. But coding has never been the bottleneck.
In corporate settings, where is most of the time spent? 99.99% of the time, it isn’t coding.
It’s
- Waiting for your product owner while they talk to a customer to find out what they need
- Waiting for DevOps to create a pipeline for your new project
- Waiting for Finance to approve a $5 or $10 USD/month purchase
- Waiting for endless committees to decide what to build
- Coordinating people to build the right thing under schedule
- Waiting for code reviews, even when they're short and focused
AI speeds up only one step of the process: code generation. Everything else is as slow as it has always been. And more code means more reviews, builds, approvals, and bugs. More paperwork.
Has AI truly speed things up? What do you think?
I'm not against AI, but my mantra is build real skills, then leverage AI. That's why I wrote Street-Smart Coding, the roadmap I wish I had to build real, AI-proofed coding skills.
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