Liu: Codebase complexity is software's bottleneck, not code generation speed
Beyang Liu · The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph · Dec 17, 2023 · at 1:15:26
Sourcegraph co-founder Beyang Liu discusses why AI developer tools should focus on code comprehension rather than raw code generation.
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“The real problem of modern software development, I think is, is not how quickly can you write more lines of code. It's really about managing the emergent complexity of code bases as they evolve and grow, and how to get, how to make like efficient development tractable again, because the bulk of your time becomes more about understanding how the system works and how the pieces fit together currently so that you can update it in a way that gets you your added functionality”
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