Where is all the new, good software?

Re:Where is all the new, good software? by dude250711 on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:46AM (#50068601)

> Software teams are capturing a lot of the speedup in the form of more leisure or quasi-leisure time. (To greatly simplify: software teams are offering 2x speedups to their companies. They're then using tools that allow them to work 10x as efficiently, and taking nice long coffee breaks.)

If the leadership (C-suite) is afraid to take the full responsibility over AI output, then the only rational choice for developers is to "pace the frontier" themselves.

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Re:Where is all the new, good software? by kvgr on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:59AM (#50068709)

I think this has to do with human bandwidth. We are required to read and reason about all generated code, but there is limit how much can each person process in a day.

If there are skills, design MCPs, automatic testing and evaluation, feature bug monitoring, security monitoring, crash handling and automatic fixes, then we could see the productivity in teams. But now it is still our responsibility and not responsibility of the system.

Move fast and don't break things.

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Re:Where is all the new, good software? by nicce on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:00AM (#50068721)

> output, then the only rational choice for developers is to "pace the frontier" themselves.

And then the C-suite fires them and replaces with ones who are not pacing it. It must come from the high level.

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Re:Where is all the new, good software? by hunterpayne on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:24PM (#50081247)

Oh look, this post is explaining the reason for another article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065892

Nice one...

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