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Is GenAI better than software development?

2025-06-26 11:45:16.521546+02 by ebwolf 0 comments

GenAI creates a hot mess. We assume the hot mess will be better in the future. I'm not sure if it will continue to make a hot mess or the mess will cool relative to our perception that it won't seem to be a hot mess any longer.

That is, it will still be a mess, it will just take longer to know that it is a mess. To be fair, this has always been the case for Software. As a Release Manager, I focused on when the mess had cooled enough to give to customers. After each release we would do two things:

  1. Try to cool the mess (fix bugs)
  2. Try to mess up other things related to the first goal (new features)

Rarely does software truly correct the problem it was meant to address. It is no wonder that software geeks are excited about GenAI. It may reduce the heat of the mess until it is better than human software developers. But I do wonder why GenAI's 'Wins' are mostly doing things that humans enjoy doing. Why not the stuff we dislike, I'm sure GenAI is a wiz at trigonometry.

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