'I Don't Think AI Will Make Your Processes Go Faster' — Practitioner Counter-Narrative Gets 136 Points, 77 Comments
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Frederick Van Brabant's May 15 blog post argues that AI accelerates individual task completion but does not speed up organizational processes because the bottleneck was never typing speed — it's alignment, review, coordination, and decision-making. The post resonated strongly on HN (136 points, 77 comments) as practitioners debated whether AI productivity gains are real or illusory, echoing the METR study's finding that experienced open-source developers were actually slower with AI tools.