alt Hacker NewsWhat surprises me is that this obvious inefficiency isn't competed out of the market. Ie this is clearly such a suboptimal use of time and yet lots of companies do it and don't get competed out by other ones that don't do this
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iterateoften • today at 2:51 PM
Short term gets faster more competitive results than long term.
I think the issue is everyone's stuck in the same boat - the alternative to using AI and spending time reviewing is just writing it yourself, which takes even longer. so even if it's not a net win, it's still better than nothing. plus a lot of companies aren't actually measuring the review overhead properly - they see 'AI wrote 500 lines in 2 minutes' and call it a productivity win without tracking the 3 hours spent debugging it later. the inefficiency doesn't get competed out because everyone has the same constraints and most aren't measuring it honestly