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Re:100x Developers by d_silin on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @01:13PM (#50456535)
There must be an equivalent of Amdahl's law for AI-assisted development.

"You can get 100x speedup on the 90% of your development tasks, but remaining 90% of them take the same amount of time with or without AI"

Re:100x Developers by ozim on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @01:22PM (#50456645)
Ozim law - you can speed up your development 100x or 1000x and it doesn’t matter because your users are not able to absorb and understand the changes at that rate.

I was already working on teams where we got push back on too many changes so we had to scale back to monthly releases.

Modyfying database structure so fast? Good luck having useful insights when you mutate data so quick.

Maybe I am not smart enough having not smart enough customers but to judge if something meaningful is an improvement you need at least 3 months of data for a lot of things.

Re:100x Developers by jononor on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @01:27PM (#50456725)
Amdahl can be applied directly to sequential tasks in projects.

In project management the overall gains can be even smaller than that. If the task is not on the critical path (ref a GANTT chart), then speeding it up does nothing to overall completion time.

Of course the particular resource can still be freed earlier. Which might make it possible to do other things with it. But nothing on overall completion time.

If one underestimates the swtiching costs of changing the task a resource has, one can end up with negative effects on the original project.