You Are the Bottleneck (And That's Fine)

The bottleneck isn't the agent. It's you. And that's fine.

The cost of producing software is approaching zero.

An agent can scaffold a service in minutes. Build a new feature before lunch. Open 12 PRs while you’re in a meeting.

So, what’s left?

You.

Not you writing the code. You steering the coding agent and understanding what’s being built.

“Many people no longer know what code is in their own codebase.”

“If input grows faster than throughput, you have an accumulating failure.”

— Armin Ronacher, The Final Bottleneck

The bottleneck has shifted. It used to be production.

Now it’s comprehension.

Lose track of what’s being built and you’re done. No mental model of how the solution works. Can’t debug. Can’t extend. Can’t say no to the wrong abstraction.

You become a passenger in your own project.

You are the bottleneck. That’s fine. Someone has to be the one who knows what the hell is being built.

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