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> The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.

— Tom Cargill, Bell Labs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety%E2%80%93ninety_rule



In my experience for enterprise software engineering, in this stage we are able to shrink the coding time with ~20%, depending on the kind of code/tests.

However CICD remains tricky. In fact when AI agents start building autonomous, merge trains become a necessity…


Love this quote. Kinda sad I didn’t see this earlier in my life.




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