The industry's currently obsessed with how fast we can generate code. Every morning in our engineering general channel on Microsoft Teams, someone's posting a link to a new agent or a model that can write a thousand lines of perfect frontend or backend code in seconds. We're treating implementation speed like it's still the primary obstacle to shipping software.
It isn't. Implementation's basically a solved problem.
If I want a new microservice to handle regional tax calculations for our checkout flow, I can have the scaffold, the logic, and the unit tests generated before my coffee gets cold. The bottleneck's shifted entirely. The bottleneck isn't "How do we write this?" but "How do we know this is actually right?"
The evaluation bottleneck
Evaluation's replaced implementation as the hardest part of our jobs.
