“Code is design, not manufacturing. In a factory, you optimize the machines. In software, you optimize the system that humans work within: the processes, the tooling, the information flows, the organizational structure.”
https://rmurphey.substack.com/p/the-physics-of-software-delivery
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“The “author” abstraction is breaking, and that’s load-bearing for the entire [software development] flow. Code review assumed someone wrote the code and could explain it… When the author is an AI agent, review shifts from “check a colleague’s logic” to “reverse-engineer unfamiliar code written by a system that can’t explain its choices.” That’s a fundamentally different cognitive task, and it’s slower per line, not faster — even as the volume of code to review goes up.”