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Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Read this korrent: AI has already made sweeping mechanical changes cheap; the unsolved problem is getting the same productivity when adding features to an old, entangled codebase. AI has already made sweepingmechanical changes cheap; theunsolved problem is getting the sameproductivity when adding features toan old, entangled codebase. TP Thuan Pham — holds since 2026-04-01 — tap for who they are Same subject: AI has moved the programmer's bottleneck from writing code to having good design ideas, and there is no verification loop for a design idea. — tap to centre the map on it AI has moved the programmer'sbottleneck from writing codeto having good design ideas,and there is no verification… MN Michael Nielsen — holds since 2026-04-07 — tap for who they are Same subject: The absence of a visible productivity jump from AI proves nothing, because a real ten percent uplift across the board would be impressive and almost invisible from outside. — tap to centre the map on it The absence of a visibleproductivity jump from AIproves nothing, because a realten percent uplift across the… CM Casey Muratori — holds since 2026-08-26 — tap for who they are Same subject: There is a world where AI coding tools change nothing except that engineers are happier, and for a lot of companies that is not good enough to keep paying for. — tap to centre the map on it There is a world where AIcoding tools change nothingexcept that engineers arehappier, and for a lot of… DR Dax Raad — holds since 2026-05-27 — tap for who they are Same subject: AI writes code well only where a million repositories have already written it; getting it to do something genuinely new remains notoriously hard. — tap to centre the map on it AI writes code well only wherea million repositories havealready written it; getting itto do something genuinely new… TS Tim Sweeney — holds since 2025-04-30 — tap for who they are Same subject: The personal computer made countless individual tasks easier without delivering the productivity gains everyone expected, and AI may go the same way. — tap to centre the map on it The personal computer madecountless individual taskseasier without delivering theproductivity gains everyone… CN Cal Newport — holds since 2026-06-29 — tap for who they are Same subject: AI has made prototyping fast but has not yet joined it to the workflow, so at any real scale the handoffs between functions are still there. — tap to centre the map on it AI has made prototyping fastbut has not yet joined it tothe workflow, so at any realscale the handoffs between… AC Albert Cheng — holds since 2025-10-05 — tap for who they are Same subject: The AI coding tools only recently became good enough to change the answer: after years of hating them, most of this codebase is now written by AI. — tap to centre the map on it The AI coding tools onlyrecently became good enough tochange the answer: after yearsof hating them, most of this… NE NeetCode — holds since 2026-06-24 — tap for who they are Same subject: Coding models are worst at exactly the thing an AI research explosion would need: code that has never been written before. — tap to centre the map on it Coding models are worst atexactly the thing an AIresearch explosion would need:code that has never been… AK Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2025-10-17 — tap for who they are
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At the centre AI has already made sweeping mechanical changes cheap; the unsolved problem is getting the same productivity when adding features to an old, entangled codebase. Holds Thuan Pham Read this korrent →