Limited output is a feature

aka the LLM agent productivity boost is a trap As the tech startup scene continues to find more and more advanced ways to use LLM agents to build software, complete tasks, do research and marketing, and anything in-between, I’m wondering if we’re losing track of what matters. While people are posting about whether or not you still need to do (or should do) code review, or how they’re building their software factories, I’m starting to struggle to see how it relates to actually accomplishing the goals of those startups. Are startups that build and obsess over software factories more likely to create a product that understands its users? Does removing human review from PRs increase the quality of the user experience of the product? Or have we gotten lost in a frantic race to optimize for “AI-enablement” over meaningful features? With LLMs you can build pipelines from customer feedback to automated PR creation and approval, to shipping whole features without human intervention. You can…