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The part I agree about: Software engineering is about more than writing code, so accelerating coding by 10X doesn't accelerate a software engineer by 10X.

The part I disagree about: I've never worked at a company that has a 3 month cycle from code-written to code-review-complete. That sounds insane and dysfunctional. AI won't fix an organization like that

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Perhaps I was not clear here. My point isn't to say that one PR gets merged in 3 months. My point is to say that, lets say, 15 PRs from one dev get merged per quarter in the old days, for a 10x productivity boost that means that roughly 15 PRs get merged per 7 business days now. My point is simply that the amount of time that goes into the basic lag cycle involved in code review can't be compressed to 7 days.

I think focusing on end-to-end time confuses things more than it helps. A system can have 10X throughput with the latency being unchanged. You don't need to reduce latency or cycle time to have a 10X increase in throughput.

The better argument is that Software Engineers spend a lot of time doing things that aren't writing code and arent being accelerated by any AI code assistant

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