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Most organisations are bottlenecked on ideas, vision and taste rather than on implementation, so making code cheap does not make them productive.

Drawn from what David Heinemeier Hansson said

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    David Heinemeier Hansson 26 Aug 2026

    The other thing I'd say is that most organizations don't know what they want. They don't know how to make it better. They're not bottlenecked on implementation. They're bottlenecked on ideas. They're bottlenecked on vision. They're bottlenecked on taste. And if you don't have those element in excess of your implementational capacity, it doesn't help. So you can make a lot of shitty ideas come true, then what?
    spoken · official transcript hear it at 0:20:13 · all korrents from this recording

    DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com

First recorded here 26 Aug 2026 · How quotes work

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