“Now, coding was the easy part. This actually was never the bottleneck. Your context is laid out in natural language. I bet if you look at your real engineering metrics, what's the median time to review a PR?”

Palmie argues that writing code was never the limiting step; the delay sits downstream, in pull request review, reproducing bugs and debugging. He frames the software factory as putting agents into those stages rather than only into code generation. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.