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The Bottleneck: Why Faster Coding Doesn't Speed Up Projects

https://www.heise.de/en/blog/The-Real-Bottleneck-Why-Faster-Coding-Doesn-t-Speed-Up-Projects-11172609.html
7•goloroden•1h ago

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bryanlarsen•48m ago
One way to use AI to speed up your projects:

Let your Support/QA/Sales engineers use AI to create features / fix bugs. They're closer to the customer than your developers are.

Even if what they deliver is complete AI slop and has to be rewritten, that pull request is a far better specification of what customers actually want than the ticket you used to get.

Too bad you fired all your QA/support engineers a few years ago.

Our_Benefactors•20m ago
It’s actually worse than slop, because they aren’t capable of producing slop, because they don’t understand the basics of version control or even how to talk about code concepts, so they require additional training and onboarding before they can even start producing claude-slop…
bryanlarsen•12m ago
If they're that incompetent and talking to customers, you are losing a lot of customers that are turned off by the incompetence.
datadrivenangel•27m ago
In most organizations, critical path time and effort spent on coding is probably 10-20% of overall time. Overall software development effort for a software development project is probably ~50% total, and if you're lucky half of that is coding, so if coding is now 1.5x to 5x as productive, then we'd expect software projects to take up to ~40% less overall time and regular project to be ~3-8% shorter for the same output...
28304283409234•21m ago
This is why I have been replacing my product owner and product manager with AI. For the life of them they have no clue about their product that I am building. AI is giving me far better problem definitions based on my observations on best practises and customer input than any PO ever did.
estimator7292•11m ago
Yeah, what I really want is an AI project manager for all my personal projects. My PM at work is an absolute rockstar at herding all of us ADHD cats, and the support and organization they provide has radically improved my work.

Please someone give me an AI that plugs into my private GitLab server and organizes my work efforts

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https://github.com/Jitera-Labs/prompt_mixer.exe
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Recreating Hi8

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1•alexkranias•1m ago•0 comments

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https://maxhalford.github.io/blog/text-classification-zstd/
1•rbanffy•1m ago•0 comments

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1•Jacques2Marais•1m ago•0 comments

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1•alrjoe•2m ago•0 comments

Attention Sinks and Compression Valleys in LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06477
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1•delichon•3m ago•0 comments

A note about personal security

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1•sdoering•4m ago•0 comments

Part 1 - AI Chat Evaluation of the Formal Language in He Xin's PEPC System

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A Note on File History in Emacs

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1•Brajeshwar•5m ago•0 comments

Revisionist History – Aliens, Secrets and Conspiracies

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Functional Programming in M4

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AI makes it easier to build the wrong thing faster

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1•joemasilotti•7m ago•1 comments

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Unresponsive Buttons on My Fastest Hardware

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AI-First Company Memos

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PicoClaw: Ultra-Efficient AI Assistant in Go

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AITools.coffee – GitHub metrics observatory tracking 27K+ open-source AI repos

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AI Agents 101: From Concept to Code (No Frameworks Required)

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1•semerkchet•12m ago•0 comments

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Seeking Order in Chaos

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3•garritfra•13m ago•0 comments