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Re:Understanding is the new bottleneck by jagenabler2 on Friday August 14, 2026 @10:48AM (#49299451)
The justification I’ve been getting from others is that future models will resolve all the tech debt, so paying a cost to iterate fast now is worth it.

We may be way past the point.

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Re:Understanding is the new bottleneck by imtringued on Friday August 14, 2026 @12:13PM (#49300779)
Do they actually iterate on their code? Or do they claim they are iterating?

Closing a ticket with more code doesn't count as iterating.

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Re:Understanding is the new bottleneck by jagenabler2 on Friday August 14, 2026 @12:19PM (#49300857)
lol they're definitely not iterating on code. Instead they iterate on "ideas", with the expectation that code no longer matters because complexity will be self-resolving with agentic loops.

Unfortunately these tools, and the VCs/companies pushing to adopt them, has totally empowered this type of behaviour.

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