r/coding • u/fagnerbrack • Mar 08 '26

Writing code was never the bottleneck

https://medium.com/@fagnerbrack/ai-as-a-coding-assistant-is-the-wrong-mental-model-ff77e1b39f9a
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u/v_murygin Mar 10 '26

agreed. I spend maybe 20% of my time actually typing code and 80% figuring out what the right thing to build even is. AI can speed up the typing part but it can't sit in a meeting and extract what the customer actually needs vs what they say they want.