Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S...
by keeda on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:15PM
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Yep, and we've known this since the Mythical Man Month, but the biggest slowdown is coordination overhead. However, if one person can do much more work, you need fewer people overall which means even lesser coordination between them, which is when broader organizational productivity gains will be unlocked.
So the answer to why we don't see AI productivity gains more broadly is, unfortunately, enough people have not been "re-orged" away.
So the answer to why we don't see AI productivity gains more broadly is, unfortunately, enough people have not been "re-orged" away.