Comment by aacid
2 days ago
The premise is clear, is one agent can do what developer can, but quicker, why not speed up the whole workflow to match it?
2 days ago
The premise is clear, is one agent can do what developer can, but quicker, why not speed up the whole workflow to match it?
Have you used Claude Code?
Have you seen the benefit of the churn of 1000 PRs a day?
It’s only about 10 per engineer. I’m not at Anthropic and before 2026 I was regularly hitting 1400 commits / year on my GitHub. If agents made me 2x faster (they have, review is still slow; I currently have 40 PRs open) that’d be the same rate.
> 40 PRs open
Ah, so you've privatised the benefits and externalised the costs.
Right, but why do things this fast to begin with, especially for a product that's already publicly available?
I don't want to use a product that shifts under me as I use it several times a day. I want a product that actually moves slowly and works very reliably.
As an end user: why would I care about how many hundreds of releases a month are being pushed if maybe 1% of them have features I care about?
Speed is not the product.
More code output isn't a metric of success per se. Goodhart's law.
Humans don't operate at AI speeds. We're making the car go from 0 to 5000 mph in 1 second and the drivers are turning to goo in the seat.
haha I do like that analogy.