Code Agents and the Myth of Instant Productivity
Introduction The usual take about the growth of code agents in tech teams includes two points: that the engineer’s productivity has increased by a factor of X using code agents, and that the bottleneck is now in the review and verification process. As a result, the claim is that the bottleneck is in verification. By verification, people usually mean that code is generated but then needs to go through the human verification process for quality control. Since a machine can generate code faster than a human can read, PRs now accumulate in codebases faster than developers can review and merge them. ...