AI won't fix broken dev processes

The "AI speedup" is often a mirage created by shifting the documentation burden upstream to experts.

• –Development is a translation problem; AI requires hyper-precise specs that humans aren't currently providing
• –Coding is rarely the actual bottleneck; vague requirements and legal/domain hurdles are the true constraints
• –If developers were given the same "handholding" level of detail required by AI, their productivity would similarly skyrocket
• –True optimization follows Theory of Constraints: adding AI to a messy process just produces garbage results faster