Yuchen Jin: The software engineering bottleneck is no longer code, but people
Yuchen Jin believes that the biggest bottleneck in software engineering is no longer writing code, but human coordination: waiting hours for manual PR reviews, holding meetings for "alignment," finding people, and the whole line getting blocked when someone goes on vacation. AI makes writing code cheaper, but organizations still run on human coordination, and AI-native companies will be very different from today's companies.
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The biggest bottleneck in software engineering is no longer code. It's humans.
Waiting hours for (human) PR reviews. Meetings for "alignment." Hunting down the right person. Someone's on vacation? Everything is blocked.
AI made writing code cheap. But organizations still run on human coordination.
AI-native companies will look quite different from today's companies.