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> AI-assisted programming pushes the limits of programming from what you can implement to what you can specify and what you can verify.

This really resonates. We can write code a lot faster than we can safely deploy it at the moment.

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marcosdumay|2 months ago

> We can write code a lot faster than we can safely deploy it at the moment.

We always could. That has been true since the days we programmed computers by plugging jumper wires into a panel.

lelanthran|2 months ago

> We always could. That has been true since the days we programmed computers by plugging jumper wires into a panel.

That's news to me, and I'm an ancient greybeard in development.

If you have a team of 1x f/time developer and 1x f/time tester, the tester would be spending about half their day doing nothing.

Right now, a single developer with Claude code can very easily overwhelm even a couple of testers with new code to test.

acedTrex|2 months ago

> We can write code a lot faster than we can safely deploy it at the moment.

This has always been the case?