I got asked today if using AI would lead to efficiency gains in our team. I replied and said we would check it out, and cited Fred Brooks’ essay from 1986 which has the opening paragraph of: There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. This advice is older than me, but not by much. I went on to explain that while AI is useful in some places, it may not be useful in others, and we’re trying to figure out where that lies. The efficiency was desired here as the deadline imposed is amazingly short (end of June). If the deadline wasn’t short, would it really be a software project? AI is supposedly going to fix this lack of pre-planning by substituing it with bucket loads of authoring code, which as we all know is all software developers do: write code. However, as Andrew Murphy points out here: if you thought the speed of writing…
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