AI-assisted coding cuts lead time to hours; coding is rarely the bottleneck
dfinke · x · 2026-09-18
Developer dfinke discusses the DORA metric Lead Time: the span from when a change is needed to when it reaches a paying customer, measuring the whole system rather than just developers. With AI-assisted coding, he observes lead times shrinking from weeks to hours, since writing code is rarely the bottleneck anymore—though a big backlog still means quarterly lead times.
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