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The code was never the bottleneck. It’s always the org around it.

I think you are underestimating the amount of low priority issues that exist that doing need alignment around fixing. In the past these had little upside to actually fix, but as the cost of fixing them trends towards $0, you might as well fix them.

> but as the cost of fixing them trends towards $0

It’s not. In a proper org the cost is the testing, the release process, the coordination, the planning, etc.

Any scope creep even if it fixes something often gets shouted at.

AI can take over testing and release planning / coordination. This is the allure of AI. Being able to fully close the loop of releasing software without needing a human.

If you don't know how to do something at first by using code, than the code was a bottleneck.

Yes, code is a bottleneck for those that do not know how to code.

Learning to write code always was the easy part, learning to write good software is what takes the rest of our careers to get better at.

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