Weekly Digest 15

AI

Development Speed Is Not a Bottleneck

Product development, in essence, is continuous discovery. First, we aim to validate the idea, then we switch to validating whether any given change brings us closer to our goals—growth, revenue, retention, or whatever that may be.

To make matters worse, the price we pay for removing ourselves from understanding the code is more rework. Yes, I know, we outsource that rework to an AI agent too, but we still need to drive it. And then all that rework stacks up. Remember compound interest rate in reverse?

Where’s the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don’t add up

Statistics do not show a boost in products delivered to users, even though AI boosts productivity.