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They are both the differentiator. AI previously provided speed but not quality. As soon as quality reached an acceptable threshold, the speed became the reigni
by sroerick 2mo ago
They are both the differentiator.
AI previously provided speed but not quality. As soon as quality reached an acceptable threshold, the speed became the reigning factor.
In my opinion the quality is still much lower, but speed means the cost is significantly lower also.
- TeMPOraL 2mo agoAI is already fast enough that human is a bottleneck. Hell, typing speed became a bottleneck like it was never before. I mean, if an agent can do half-decent work in less time than it takes the user to prompt them (and "user" in this context is a fast touch-typist like most programmers are), it's obvious it's not the agent that's the bottleneck anymore.
- tripzilch 2mo agoBecause finishing someone else's (or something else's) "half decent work" to the point of "actually decent" becomes the bottleneck. This has always been the case for human project management, and LLMs just aren't at that level yet. It's more like everyone is speed running to how fast they can convince others that "half decent" is good enough. And for sure, newer models of LLM seem to be getting better at that.
- TeMPOraL 2mo ago> It's more like everyone is speed running to how fast they can convince others that "half decent" is good enough. But that's what Agile is all about, isn't it? We've been speedrunning delivering increasingly smelly shit at increased velocity ever since SaaS became a thing, because ubiquitous Internet access is what allowed our industry to adopt the "lob feces over the fence for users to deal with" release model. AI does speed that up, true (though since the market - and management - didn't catch up with it yet, we have a brief moment where we can use AI to increase quality while keeping usual delivery rate.)