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I think calling design deliverables 'artifacts' is a misnomer. A 10 page document that nobody will ever read is not some artifact. The only reason it would be called that is because in 200 years someone will put it in a museum to ask why the previous generations were wasting so much time.

Robin-Yann Storm

@rystorm.com

29 May

Especially because I see so many folks talking about using AI to generate 10x more 'artifacts', and arguing that therefore they are 10x more productive. 10x of documents nobody reads it's 10 x 0 = 0

Robin-Yann Storm

@rystorm.com

29 May

When folks say they have 10x'd their productivity with AI, most of the time this is what is actually happening:

Robin-Yann Storm

@rystorm.com

I made the flippant video above, but now here is data and telemetry on the exact issue of AI creating more content, while the content takes way more time to fix: bsky.app/profile/rtm2...

Richard Meredith@rtm223.me

"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"

12/6/26, 1:18 pm0 reposts19 likes

Waltteri

@waltteri.net

12 June

"The most experienced people in your organization are being buried. We call it the senior engineer tax. [...] The engineers with the deepest knowledge of the system are spending their most valuable hours unraveling plausible-looking code that should never have reached them in the state it did." 🫠