Grady Booch: Removing bottlenecks just yields more code, not more value
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-10-15
Software engineering pioneer Grady Booch highlights the observation that "every bottleneck we remove immediately leads to a further increase in the amount of code we produce." His point: AI-assisted coding makes producing code cheaper, but code is a means, not the goal. What teams should maximize is more value, more features, and more quality — not more code — a critique aimed at conflating code volume growth with productivity gains in the AI coding era.
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