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I read this somewhere.

[jonfazzaro]

Lean Software Production

"If you're fearful of LLMs producing slop, or building a system that nobody understands, these are the techniques that the best software engineering teams have used for decades to mitigate that risk with humans."

[jonfazzaro]

"Why should I bother to read something someone else couldn't be bothered to write?"

[jonfazzaro]

AI isnt making developers more productive its making them busier

"Review is now about half of a developer's job, but many teams still treat it as the final step in the process rather than the primary constraint on delivery"

[jonfazzaro]

"If everyone already agreed with you, there'd be no opportunity left."

[jonfazzaro]

"The measure of a developer is not the number of lines written, but rather the number of lines that needn't be written."

[jonfazzaro]

The Cost YAGNI Was Never About

"Free generation doesn't weaken YAGNI. It makes the violation cheaper to commit, which is worse."

[jonfazzaro]

"The mistake is treating both kinds of code the same: Glue code gets over-engineered. Core domain logic stays hidden in long services or handlers. Good architecture starts with noticing the difference."

[jonfazzaro]

"In many cases, the systems are deliberately tuned to feel more human rather than more mechanical. I would argue that the opposite approach would be healthier in the long term."

[jonfazzaro]

"Teams using AI heavily complete 21% more tasks but experience 154% larger pull requests and 9% higher bug rates. This feels like a paradox until you realize what's happening: people are optimizing for throughput instead of outcomes. More agents running doesn't mean more work shipping. It usually means more work to review, more bugs to fix, and more token spend to justify."

[jonfazzaro]

"AI didn't take our jobs. Greed did. Same greed that moved factories to Bangladesh and keeps slaves in cobalt mines in the Congo, wearing a new mask. Tell the nephew to do something else. Anything. It won't save him either, but at least he won't have to pretend the thing destroying his life is a robot."

[jonfazzaro]

"But isn't that, my flesh-and-blood friend, the natural order of things? The longing for something that could always be a bit better. Or the way that anything worth doing feels a bit clumsy and painful, especially at first."

[jonfazzaro]

If America's So Rich How'd It Get So Sad?

"As a global health emergency, the COVID pandemic may have ended, but the state of crisis that Americans feel in their day-to-day lives when they make contact with the news has not gone away."

[jonfazzaro]

"A trait you find in all high performing people is the ability to error correct, and they have mostly been good at seeing when slop is slop. The bottom performers won't have that self check. They are the ones producing 10x output with the agents."

[jonfazzaro]

Using AI to write better code more slowly

"If Mythos taught us anything, it's that LLM agents are really good at finding bugs. Throw them at a codebase enough times, and they will find so many bugs that you'll barely know what to do with them."

[jonfazzaro]

"Most people get this backward. They take whatever job pays and spend decades fighting upstream."

[jonfazzaro]

What Is a Dickover?

"It is no different from snatching a physical copy of a book or magazine out of a reader's hands in order to badger them for something other than the attention they were already granting your work, except that the physical act of snatching a publication from a reader's hands would subject you to being punched in the face."

[jonfazzaro]

"Seems reasonable and quite a small change really, in light of the total world revolution across every swathe of human productivity."