More minor tweaks

Author: marcusoftnet

_posts/2025-08-04-ai-scare.md

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Some futurists imagine a world where code could be “regenerated” from scratc
 
 If AI is making coding faster, then what’s slowing us down now?
 
-It’s not typing, I can tell you. It never has been and probably never will. More to the point, in the age of AI, writing the code the first time is just a small part of the overall work that is done to the code. I remember sayings like `Code is read more than it is written` that is true for any application that is maintained. One might wonder how that will change when tools can explain and maybe even rewrite code for us - but I still think that optimizing for writing code faster is a trap.
+It’s not typing (Dave Farley again: `the keyboard is not the bottleneck`), I can tell you. It never has been and probably never will. More to the point, in the age of AI, writing the code the first time is just a small part of the overall work that is done to the code. I remember sayings like `Code is read more than it is written` that is true for any application that is maintained. One might wonder how that will change when tools can explain and maybe even rewrite code for us - but I still think that optimizing for writing code faster is a trap.
 
 Also, the jury is still out of on the question about how far AI tools will take us in generating great code. I really cannot say anything about how this will play out. But I'm convinced that optimizing for generating a lot of code faster will not make our product better. That comes from something else. .