[HN Gopher] The Mythical Machine-Month Paradox - How much could ...
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The Mythical Machine-Month Paradox - How much could AI change
programming?
Author : tucson-josh
Score : 16 points
Date : 2025-07-25 17:17 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| ranie93 wrote:
| slightly off-topic (but tangentially mentioned in the article). I
| google'd "Chicxulub" and saw an easter-egg I hadn't previously
| known about :)
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| Great article. I recently finished my second reading of TMM and
| how/to what extent our current era of generative code affects the
| ideas of the book was top of mind.
| k__ wrote:
| More like the Mythical Machine-Minute.
| pimlottc wrote:
| A whole lotta words and not a single mention of the actual book
| referenced in the title. What's the paradox? How does it relate
| to the Mythical Man Month? Who knows!
| wrs wrote:
| It's just the same paradox -- adding more people^Wmachines to
| crank out more code won't actually get the project done faster.
| 2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote:
| No Silver Bullet
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