alt Hacker News>Writing the code hasn’t been the bottle neck to developing software for a long time.
Then we're doing different things.
I didn't like GitHub so I wrote my own. 60k lines of code later... yes writing code was the bottleneck which has been eliminated. The bottleneck is now design, review, and quality assessments that can't be done trivially.
This isn't even the project I wanted to be doing, the tools that were available were holding me back so I wrote my own. It also consumes a few hours a week.
If you think writing code isn't the bottleneck then you aren't thinking big enough. If you don't WANT to think big enough, that's fine, I also do things for the joy of doing them.
We do different things, I do code for other people to use.
Once we tried shipping features and updates every week, because we could ideate, code, test and deploy that fast.
No user wanted that - product owners and business wanted that or they thought they wanted, until users came with torches and pitchforks.
Don’t forget there is user adoption and education.
Churning out features no one will use because they don’t know about is useless.