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I think there's so many other second/third order effects of agentic AI coding tools that have barely been explored. What does it mean to 'increase your productivity' 50% as a developer? I can barely keep up with code review as it is!

Rob Whelan 🌱@robw.bsky.social

I keep getting whiplash between hyperbolic takes on AI — the developers who are convinced their jobs are gone because it's so good, mixed with the non-devs who are outraged because it clearly has no value, to people 100% sure it cannot be stopped destroying humanity, to– Seeking the cold takes

26/2/26, 9:27 am0 reposts5 likes

joshhunt

@joshhunt.dev

26 Feb

What does it mean if i can throw every random idle thought at an LLM and have it churn away on it in the background, at practically zero cost to you? There's a big attractive nuisance here - here's 9 different tasks I have in flight at the moment. Most I will not pick back up!!!

joshhunt

@joshhunt.dev

26 Feb

Ask any developer and they'll probably say that reading and reviewing code is not their favourite part of the job. What happens when you make that the *only* part?

Cognix Dev

@cognix-dev.bsky.social

27 Feb

Exactly this. "50% more productive" usually just means 50% more code to review, and review is already the bottleneck. The second-order effect nobody talks about: without automated quality filtering at generation time, faster output just creates a bigger review backlog.

Pawel Jozefiak

@joozio.bsky.social

28 Feb

The code review bottleneck is the honest answer nobody talks about. 50% more code written means 50% more review debt - the productivity ceiling shifts, not disappears.