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Comments on No. 105 of 137 · Weli's blog · edition of Wednesday 4 November 2026

Are we going faster, Doc?

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A tech lead argues that LLMs speed up the first, most visible phase of building a feature, but not the long tail of maintenance, review, and support, where understanding code remains the bottleneck.

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