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Updated through the day. Every headline links straight to the source. The two lines underneath are ours.
This resonates because it's true for most builders right now. AI tools create new work (prompt engineering, quality gates, fine-tuning, hallucination triage) faster than they eliminate old work. The real story underneath: we're in the toolkit phase, not the automation phase. Know the difference before you pitch efficiency gains to your customers. The comments thread is worth reading.
This is the empirical reality check that code generation doesn't equal progress. If you're evaluating whether agent-assisted development justifies its cost, you now have data showing volume of output isn't the right metric. The win will come from agents that reduce bugs, not from agents that type faster than humans.