As Mark Twain said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
It’s not the Myth of the Man-Month, but the Myth of the AI-Month.
More AI-generated code doesn't make your team faster. It might slow you
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Re: More AI-generated code doesn't make your team faster. It might slow you
#22No. It makes you faster. You can prove it by looking at the lines of code. Source: Gary Tan, who can write more code than Jeff Dean and John Carmack. If you want to go really fast, you put a Ralph Wiggum dungeon. It's where you orchestrate a team of Ralph Wiggum loops together using subagents to win the economic Darwin Award which companies are handing out for who can burn the most tokens.
For the last 10+ years I have routinely auto generated 90+% of the code needed for my work using a custom code generator. Only the biz logic had to be coded by hand.
That doesn't make me a super star or whatever. Just more efficient.