Coding Agents Cut Engineering Costs, Alignment Becomes Bottleneck
rakyll · x · 2026-07-08
Engineer rakyll observes that many projects now spend 3-5x more effort on alignment discussions and executive reviews than on actual engineering. As coding agents drastically reduce development time, this imbalance will only worsen—AI accelerates coding, but the human effort required for direction-setting, vision alignment, and timeline coordination remains unchanged and may even grow exponentially.
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