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Last Notes npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman Could the divide between the “I did 3 months’ work in 3 hours with Claude” and the “It would have been quicker to do it myself” folks be more plausibly attributed to the height of their quality bar than to actual AI skills? npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman The three texts about AI coding I recommend the most: npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman "Claude writes better code than I do" npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman We're very much at the "Ah, but what if it *didn't* have to be reliable?" stage of this AI journey. npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman What makes software engineering so challenging - more often than not - is people. npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman LOL at employers. npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman I've been asked by several clients over the past year to help them find senior software engineering talent. You need to play down the "AI" rhetoric if you want to attract people who genuinely care about the work and who really know what they're doing. npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman "Humans write bad code, too!" exclaim AI boosters who don't perhaps understand that's not an argument in favour of AI-generated code. npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman OpenAI accuses a rival Chinese lab of "stealing" "hidden reasoning" by launching thousands of queries against their models. npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman Pooled together the best available research and added it to a new section "Code Maintainability & LLM Performance" npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman "Waterfall is the appropriate tool for any environment where benefits realization is clearly understood, the final design can be engineered up front, and job steps can be sequenced before work begins." npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman I think there's a good case to be made that folks using LLMs to do things they already have tools for that are quicker, more reliable and require many orders of magnitude less compute have lost the plot. npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman Enjoying listening to my own stuff. npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman The problem with trying to get an LLM to follow a process is that LLMs don't follow processes. npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman "Gone are the days when developers just wrote syntax" npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman If you're interested in the design of agentic workflows, remember this formula: npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman "Have you seen Anthropic's AI-Native SDLC playbook?" npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman I've worked with and spoken to hundreds of developers over the last year, and my best guess is that the true extent of AI use in software development is being massively exaggerated. npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman What if I told you there's a way to 10x the productivity of a software development team without making any improvements to their process? npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman My London-based client is looking for a senior software engineer with XP experience on the JVM - Kotlin preferred but not essential. npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman An established start-up based in London that makes super-useful tools for software developers (so not a bank for once!) - is looking for a senior software engineer. npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman When you take an evidence-based approach to AI-assisted and agentic software development, a picture emerges. npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman Bear in mind when you ask an LLM to explain why it did what it did (or didn't), you're asking faces on toast to explain faces on toast. npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman Germans have a big advantage in those "Can you describe in one word...?" questions npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman I've been arguing for many years that the team is the real product of software development, learning is the real outcome, and that organisations need to optimise for *that* npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman You'd probably be a bit alarmed if your doctor had a Kanban board that showed you in the "Done" column just because the medicine had been dispensed. npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman There isn't a shred of hard evidence for any dev team getting 10x, 5x or even just 2x productivity using AI. npub1jdpzm6f3f8r6xu04yayxgnnckmt5n4mq6t8a6txq4vx4867qnw2ql0qck2 Jason Gorman Software releases are questions, and only reality has the answers. Reality moves at its own pace and does not care about your ambition to 10x the process.
