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Ethan Mollick Says AI Coding Tools Can Improve Software, but Bottlenecks May Lie Elsewhere
- Who
- Ethan Mollick
- What
- argues product improvement bottlenecks often lie outside AI coding tools
What happened
This is an interesting question because the answer is not obvious. Which, by the way, does not mean AI coding tools are not leading to massive improvements, but, as research keeps showing, the bottlenecks to product improvements are often elsewhere.
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Ethan Mollick said AI coding tools are delivering major improvements, but bottlenecks that limit product improvements often lie elsewhere. He cited research as support for that distinction, arguing that gains from coding tools can coexist with constraints in other parts of product development.
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