The Unexpected Truth AI Reveals about Coding
18 Mar 2026 #codingMost people glorify AI for its speed.
AI spits out code faster than any of us, with just a few magic words. Beep, beep, boop. But coding has never been the bottleneck.
In corporate settings, where is most of the time spent? 99.99% of the time, it isn’t coding.
It’s
- Waiting for your product owner while they talk to a customer
- Waiting for DevOps to create a pipeline for your new project
- Waiting for the Finance department to approve a $5 USD/month purchase
- Waiting for a committee to decide what to do
- Waiting for a code review
AI speeds up code generation. Everything else is as slow as it has always been. And more code means more reviews, builds, approvals, and bugs. More paperwork.