Comment by nijave
7 days ago
In the corporate world, writing code was always a small chunk anyway. Iirc something like 30% of employee time. Getting 50% faster there still only gains back 10% of your time.
To further complicate matters, you had to spend on AI software and potentially additional on legal/risk/security/compliance to enable that.
The smaller the company, the bigger that % of coding is of total time (all the way down to hobby where the majority of time is spent coding)
Where I work, I would guess that, out of the amount of person-hours spent on a project, less than 5% of it is the cumulative time spent designing and writing code. There's so much other stuff going on: Requirements gathering, "aligning" with other teams, human reviews, QA, presenting to executives, waiting for approval from executives, reporting status, deploying to staging, internal dogfooding, slow ramp-ups to production... This is how projects that are 50 lines of code take 3 months to deploy. AI is helping reduce the time spent on that 2%.