[decasia]

Strongly agreeing with this comment…

I realized early on in my enterprise software job that if I produce code faster than average for my team, it will just get stuck in the rest of our review and QA processes; it doesn’t get released any faster.

It feels like LLM code gen can exacerbate and generalize this effect (especially when people send mediocre LLM code gen for review which then makes the reviews become painful).

[LeChuck]

Theory of Constraints right there. Producing faster than the slowest resource in the chain is detrimental to the entire process. You waste resources and create difficulties upstream.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constraints

[binary132]

So much wasted time debating whether the 1000 lines of generated code are actually necessary when the actual transform in question is 3 of them. “But it works”, goes the refrain.

[ninkendo]

It doesn’t even need to be the case that the LLM produces worse code. Software development is like a gas that expands to fill its container. If the schedule allows a fixed amount of time before shipping, and the time to write the code shrinks to zero, it just means the other parts of the process will fill the remaining time, even if the LLM did a decent job in the first place.