<![CDATA[I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy.]]>I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy.

Taken as a whole, there are many bottlenecks in a corporate software development process. The "load-bearing" calendar is a great example!

Speeding up code creation just increases pressure on the bottleneck, which decreases throughput.

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If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems | Debugging Leadership

AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it. Writing code was already fast. The bottleneck is everything else: unclear requirements, review queues, terrified deploy cultures, and an org chart that needs six meetings to decide what colour the button should be.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/3f20281e-293d-4fc0-95dc-25dbc4d60d11/i-m-a-big-fan-of-this-explanation-rant-from-andrew-murphy.RSS for NodeTue, 07 Apr 2026 01:08:18 GMTSat, 04 Apr 2026 16:33:47 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:30:41 GMT]]>@elizayer

The problem AI is meant to solve is wages.

They don't care if quality sucks, if they can avoid paying wages.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.uno/users/seindal/statuses/116352105911011379https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.uno/users/seindal/statuses/116352105911011379Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:30:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:24:42 GMT]]>@elizayer amen. This. So much this.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.lv/users/peteriskrisjanis/statuses/116352082441861585https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.lv/users/peteriskrisjanis/statuses/116352082441861585Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:24:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:03:14 GMT]]>@elizayer workaday devs are serfs. Software architects are more crucial than ever. Architects emerge from jr devs through apprenticeship. Go.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sigmoid.social/users/cigitalgem/statuses/116351998033862602https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sigmoid.social/users/cigitalgem/statuses/116351998033862602Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:03:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:00:57 GMT]]>@elizayer And very well said it is!

This is why exist, or SHOULD exist.

To talk to your users and THEN to tell your coders what to build AND WHY.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/arcadiagt5/statuses/116351989036460359https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/arcadiagt5/statuses/116351989036460359Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:00:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:35:12 GMT]]>@ulveon so this case justifies bazillions of dollars to be invested in needless serverfarms? And if that vulnerability wasnt discovered for 23 years it was prolly so well hidden that it was not an issue at all. Think about it.

@elizayer

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/diekehrseite/statuses/116351415918591118https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/diekehrseite/statuses/116351415918591118Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:35:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:29:27 GMT]]>@elizayer word!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/diekehrseite/statuses/116351393284684061https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/diekehrseite/statuses/116351393284684061Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:29:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:25:11 GMT]]>@elizayer @ArtHarg AI only solves one problem: paying people wages.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nl/users/Nienkez/statuses/116351376500940731https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nl/users/Nienkez/statuses/116351376500940731Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:25:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:03:12 GMT]]>@elizayer management blame productivity for strategy failure because their approach to strategy path-finding is flooding: say a bunch of random hunches overconfidently, make teams try different things out for a little while, see what sticks. They see making code faster not as a way to manufacture a good design more efficiently, but as a means to generate management fuck ups and backpedals at faster pace and greater scale.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gal/users/elrohir/statuses/116351290052950119https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gal/users/elrohir/statuses/116351290052950119Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:03:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:55:14 GMT]]>@elizayer @trendytoots I can very much relate to this

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://me.dm/users/joeslow/statuses/116351258728594895https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://me.dm/users/joeslow/statuses/116351258728594895Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:55:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:23:39 GMT]]>@robtherunt @macronencer @elizayer Same! I’ve half jokingly said my bathroom is the most productive room in my home office setup. Sitting on the toilet and lots of a-ha moments

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ublog.mroach.com/users/mroach/statuses/01KNEBV3B86SQGXPEB81XGFGWQhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ublog.mroach.com/users/mroach/statuses/01KNEBV3B86SQGXPEB81XGFGWQSun, 05 Apr 2026 08:23:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:22:09 GMT]]>@elizayer@mastodon.social Claude Code found a 23-year-old Linux vulnerability, the kind a regular human security auditor would have taken weeks or months to find (or in this case, 23 years). https://mtlynch.io/claude-code-found-linux-vulnerability/

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://derg.social/notes/akp24vufu9https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://derg.social/notes/akp24vufu9Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:22:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:21:49 GMT]]>@macronencer @mroach @elizayer
When I was working, I would regularly solve a development issue while in the shower. I think it’s the brain being unstressed that does that.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cupoftea.social/users/robtherunt/statuses/116351127352281165https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cupoftea.social/users/robtherunt/statuses/116351127352281165Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:21:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:53:06 GMT]]>@Aedius @elizayer when it is javascript yes.
I wasn't talking about less slop.
There will be more of that.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/wila/statuses/116351014441213828https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/wila/statuses/116351014441213828Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:53:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:42:04 GMT]]>@wila @elizayer

All code is open source when you push it with a map file.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://lavraievie.social/users/Aedius/statuses/116350971020110542https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://lavraievie.social/users/Aedius/statuses/116350971020110542Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:42:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:23:32 GMT]]>@spazcosoft @elizayer Wasn't this always? Newly hyped stuff is used for scam, or porn, or both.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/waldi/statuses/116350898169047169https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/waldi/statuses/116350898169047169Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:23:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:12:55 GMT]]>@Aedius @elizayer there's just going to be less open source

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/wila/statuses/116350856428107261https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/wila/statuses/116350856428107261Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:12:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:51:51 GMT]]>@elizayer This is a fabulously well-written article on flow, constraints, and fixing the biggest constraint first. Well worth nyour time if you do…well, anything.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/mjt/statuses/116350773606303265https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/mjt/statuses/116350773606303265Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:51:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:34:29 GMT]]>@elizayer
Almost all of the code written by the major software companies since the late 80’s has been bloatware. Especially operating systems. The days when programming was an art and minimizing resource usage was the primary consideration are long gone. If that code is what AI and these LLM’s are being “trained” on then expect software to continue its downward spiral.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/GuitarSith/statuses/116350233432824831https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/GuitarSith/statuses/116350233432824831Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:34:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:41:28 GMT]]>@elizayer I've listened to a few podcasts now where software company executives (and even a CEO, who I would have expected to know better because he's a CEO) have talked about how much faster their teams are producing code, and since their QA teams can't keep up they've fired those people and are using Claude for QA now.

I get that devs don't study management subjects (I was one myself, many years ago) so they won't necessarily know how to find and fix bottlenecks, but I'm genuinely disappointed that software industry executives don't realise they're in a manufacturing business, nor do they understand how to optimise their value chains.

I know it's a cliche to say that people fail upwards, and I've worked with many executives who were clearly in their roles because they were intelligent, educated, and were delivering at a strategic level - but I'm beginning to wonder if software businesses are a special case.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/Standard_Phil/statuses/116349789041865758https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/Standard_Phil/statuses/116349789041865758Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:41:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:14:31 GMT]]>@elizayer yes, this. Code creation hasn’t been an issue for a long, long, long time. See “no silver bullet” (https://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks_1986_-_No_Silver_Bullet.pdf) written in *1986*.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/wbftw/statuses/116349447114291756https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/wbftw/statuses/116349447114291756Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:14:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:18:42 GMT]]>@mtnrbq65 @elizayer developers sometimes reference the 80/20 rule. And let's say in certain ways LLM code tools can get you through that 80% part faster, but they also have very real risk of making the last 20% even slower.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/aeischeid/statuses/116349227681591951https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/aeischeid/statuses/116349227681591951Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:18:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy. on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:33:38 GMT]]>@elizayer

"The Mythical Man Month"

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/nickrauchen/statuses/116349050448609637https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/nickrauchen/statuses/116349050448609637Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:33:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy. on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:33:00 GMT]]>@beep @elizayer well yes, it's clear you haven't listened to the episode 😉

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nz/users/Niall/statuses/116349047945020509https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nz/users/Niall/statuses/116349047945020509Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:33:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy. on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:51:21 GMT]]>@elizayer i think about this. according to the promises, all the little snags and bugs and oversights in all the software i use should be gone by now. "everyone's focusing on bigger things" doesn't excuse it, i was given the expectation these types of fixes should have been trivial and quick. computing should be better than ever, or at least as good as it was in the 2010s

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