‘Coding Was Never the Bottleneck’ Is Actually Bearish for Employment

It seems like with the acceleration of software coding through AI, many programmers claim that while coding itself has become faster, the overall productivity gain has not been as dramatic because, in their companies, coding was never the main bottleneck. Instead, they point to other factors such as meetings, coordination with other teams, bureaucracy, organizational friction, etc. However, I remember that even in the pre-LLM days, a lot of developers treated these “other” parts of their jobs as inefficient bullshit that often got in the way of real progress. Of