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Slow developer experience will bottleneck fast models (Sean Goedecke)
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Sean Goedecke argues that nothing under a second matters in today's dev loop because you're waiting on the agent anyway, and that this flips once fast small models take subagent work. At that point your test suite and dev server become the bottleneck.
In plain words
- Sean Goedecke argues that programming tools will need to catch up as artificial intelligence (AI) gets faster.
- Today, programmers spend so long waiting for AI that tiny delays in their other tools barely matter.
- He expects faster AI to handle more routine programming tasks, cutting the wait for it to finish.
- Slow checks for software mistakes would then hold programmers back, limiting the benefit of faster AI.
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- An agent deleted an AML control, and benchmark scaffolds do the model's work
Sep 14, 2026 · in the sections
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