Comment by al_borland

This all assumes the code was the bottleneck. That rarely seems to be the case. I work in a large organization full of bureaucracy. Getting people to agree on what to build, and sorting out dependencies between team, and general communication doesn’t seem to be helped by AI, and those are the bottlenecks. I had the CIO tell my boss project X was the most important thing, just get it done. I ignored all the meetings, made every decision myself, and was done in 1-2 weeks (without AI). Then the bureaucracy entered. Over the next 2 years I was on daily meetings, architects would randomly show up and tell me this or that needed to be changed (always for the worse, imo). Hell, we spent 4+ months debating a list of ports to open. I wanted to throw myself out the window. I started out with a list of ports that were actually required, we could sub in an AI answer for that, and we still spent half a year tinkering. “We”… them, I just had to sit there and listen to it.

Will a great Batman film be written by AI? It seems like it would be a boring and predictable script without and soul, rehashing old themes that have all been done. And the script is only a minor piece of the puzzle. A lot of moving parts have to come together to make a great film. Does AI have taste? Good taste?

If AI can’t solve the bottlenecks, it’s not actually going to speed up delivery.