The deep knowledge really isn’t all that deep. A couple years in the weeds and you have it. What this really hurts is outsourced devs. In the past a non coding person could come up with the spec and hire someone from a developing nation to make it on the cheap to that spec. It is still possible to work like this of course, resulting in working code compared to llm that might hallucinate a passing test condition that you can’t appreciate with your lack of coding chops. It is just the ai seems “faster” and the way it is paid for less in front of your face. Really in practice, nothing new was really gained. Pm always could hire code. Now they hire nondeterministic generated code but they are still essentially hiring code, submitting spec, having something else write the code.
Perhaps. Then again, most people aren't working in fields where racing to the finish is a requirement. Corporate work I've found is really slow moving for a lot of reasons. Things getting backburnered and pushed back is pretty standard. It takes time for all the stakeholders to digest information and make feedback. There is also the phenomenon where no one really appreciably works after thanksgiving so for most american corporate workers it is like they are on a 10.5 month year as it is. All this to say that even with diminished feedback cycle wait time and lightened communication workload, I don't think the product is getting out any faster.
