What I think is going on with AI is that what software managers really want is to be able to turn a dial marked "Quality" down and see a gauge marked "Speed" go up. AI agents seem like they could give managers that dial, so they've gotten very excited. I do think that AI offers something closer to that dial than managers have ever had before, but that it still doesn't solve the problem with building that dial, which is that software projects are nonlinear systems with a tendency to collapse into pathological (non-software producing) states.In other words: The so-called "iron triangle" of price/quality/speed doesn't really exist in software the way people want it to, because fiddling with quality doesn't predictably affect speed or price. Decreasing quality a little bit might increase speed by a little bit, or it might decrease speed by a lot. Or it might have one effect for a little while and a different effect if you stay at that spot for a while.AI presents some improvements over…
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