| ▲ | regularfry 2 hours ago | |
Yes, that exists at the wider business level. No question. I think what needs to get asked is are we talking about a bottleneck within the business as a whole, or a bottleneck within the scope of the knowledge work in question. Within software delivery there's a very clear shift when it's suddenly trivial to drop a 100kLoC plausible-looking PR into code review within an afternoon. Producing working code with a whole bunch of tests which make a very clear assertion that it does, in fact, work has had (if you're going that way) all the human-scale thinking time taken out of it, down to a rounding error. It still needs to be checked by a human, which was previously assumed to be a comparatively quick task in comparison to producing the thing. At least, it does where I am, and I don't think that's a silly position today at all. If they can crack that latter review/spec-check/assurance step, checking that what was built was what was demanded of the problem such that we don't have humans in the loop at that step either, then the bottleneck moves again. Then I think it moves to requirements capture and to product development, but that might depend on the industry. | ||