After I wrote the loom article last week, it occurred to me that the process of software development is no different. And thus, to improve it, we should find the bottleneck, figure out a way to make it no longer the bottleneck, and repeat.
And it seems obvious to me that the actual coding of the application is the narrow, high-pressure point in the software development pipeline. In a process full of friction, writing the code is usually the bottleneck that determines when a project gets finished.
So what happens if writing code ceases to be the bottleneck? Well, I think we are just about there with agentic coding, no? For the sake of argument, and to keep this column rolling, let’s assume that such is the case. Let’s take it as granted that writing code becomes something that happens over days and weeks, and not weeks, months, or even years.
