AI Didn't Remove the Bottleneck — It Moved It
Cheap code production doesn't raise throughput if review and integration can't keep up. The bottleneck moves downstream — that's where the work is
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Cheap code production doesn't raise throughput if review and integration can't keep up. The bottleneck moves downstream — that's where the work is
AI made writing tests nearly free, and flaky suites exploded. Why retry and quarantine are a treadmill, and what catches flakiness deterministically
Vibe coding lowers the cost of a first version, not the cost of being wrong. That bill arrives in production, not at build time.
The seven rules I follow to use Claude Code and similar agents on production code with confidence — not a skeptical take, a discipline manifesto