Coding bottleneck is not code generation but testing and quality assurance
Al_Grigor · x · 2026-08-15
A developer observes that in building SaaS, the bottleneck often lies not in code generation itself, but in testing and other measures ensuring quality. This suggests that while AI accelerates writing code, the supporting QA processes remain a constraint on engineering efficiency.
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