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My impression is that AI coding is on a "pick two of three" triangle: scope, ship speed, and correctness. Small tools are (speed + correctness) fast prototypes are (speed + scope) and big projects are (scope + correctness). Every project that tries to be all three degrades to "fast prototype."

I mean, this was coding before AI tools, right? They’re an accelerator, not a sea change.

it has a real ability to hyperscale scope creep. scope... blitzcreep? scope sprint? the scopocalypse?

I like blitzcreep that's great

Gives you the ability to vastly extend your coding on two fronts at high speed until you get bogged down in the siege of Leningrad.

The slow parts just moved

And a lot for developers my self included are doing a *ton* of maintained related things we never really had the appetite for in the past to do due to the time and effort to do.

the bottlenecks are in a different place now

Right, what was formerly scarce is increasingly … not.