👋🏽 HN,
It’s always been a challenge for me to maintain a mental model of the product.
AI and agentic development is accelerating the problem of maintaining a systems model that allows us to make good design decisions. The more code we create, the more we need to review and learn.
The long poles in the software development lifecycle that have a lot of room for improvement are comprehension & alignment.
How does it work now?
How should it work?
Where should we go next?
How do we get there?
I think it’s becoming abundantly clear that commoditizing coding is not commoditizing software development.
Stepping aside to speak to my own interests —
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