The Bottleneck Was the Feature

Mario Zechner - the creator of libGDX, one of the most widely-used Java game frameworks - recently published "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down". His argument: autonomous coding agents aren't just fast, they're compounding errors without learning. Human developers have natural bottlenecks - typing speed, comprehension time, fatigue - that cap how much damage any one person can do in a day. Agents remove those bottlenecks. Errors scale linearly with output. He names the pattern ants of Learned Complexity: agents extract architecture patterns from.