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100% agree on this. Big log jam coming, with volume of code piling up behind the requirements and planning and "meaning" of the work aspects. In particular, I
by cmrdporcupine 6mo ago
100% agree on this. Big log jam coming, with volume of code piling up behind the requirements and planning and "meaning" of the work aspects.
In particular, I think the agentic tools as written today are particularly corrosive on code review culture. We spent years having mainline companies migrating from free for all commit privileges (everywhere I worked was like this prior to about 2010 or so) to variants of code review / "PR" code reviewing culture, only to have it all disintegrate in the last 6 months as "reviews" have ended up consisting of people tossing agentic code over the fence and then people having other agents review it, and then again agents respond to comments, etc. etc.
It's a bit of code review theatre that pretends there's still eyes on things, when there's not.
Similarly the whole edifice of "agile" planning in SCRUM etc form makes no sense when pumping out code isn't the time blocker. All the backlog refinement meetings and burn down charts and points tracking are pointless ceremony when what people really need is intense clarity on what needs to be done and why and intensive review of what's already been built and where the holes are.
All of this is just going to create a giant logjam in the higher level "executive function" aspects of a company. Getting people talking to each other has always been something most management at most companies I've worked at have failed at. Now they're going to really suffer for it.