Yes
I can improve the codebase in ways that weren’t justifiable before in places that do not suffer from the coordination costs you rightly point out
kasey_junk on Hacker News
In the thread “Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome”, replying to this comment
Helped: Agents running compile/test loops and handling low-coordination tasks.
… That’s where my improvements are almost universally coming from. I can improve the codebase in ways that weren’t justifiable before in places that do not suffer from the coordination costs you rightly point out. I no longer feel like my peers are standing still, because they’ve nearly uniformly adopted ai tools. …