alt Hacker NewsThe premise is clear, is one agent can do what developer can, but quicker, why not speed up the whole workflow to match it?
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Right, but why do things this fast to begin with, especially for a product that's already publicly available?
I don't want to use a product that shifts under me as I use it several times a day. I want a product that actually moves slowly and works very reliably.
As an end user: why would I care about how many hundreds of releases a month are being pushed if maybe 1% of them have features I care about?
Speed is not the product.
More code output isn't a metric of success per se. Goodhart's law.
Humans don't operate at AI speeds. We're making the car go from 0 to 5000 mph in 1 second and the drivers are turning to goo in the seat.
Have you used Claude Code?
Have you seen the benefit of the churn of 1000 PRs a day?