Quoting Armin Ronacher
Armin Ronacher argues that AI accelerates code generation but may eliminate the 'friction' necessary for synchronizing team understanding, which is the core mechanism for building complex systems.
Simon Willison · Jul 15, 2026
Armin Ronacher argues that AI accelerates code generation but may eliminate the 'friction' necessary for synchronizing team understanding, which is the core mechanism for building complex systems.
AI evaluation costs are skyrocketing, with single agent benchmark runs costing tens of thousands of dollars, and their inherent complexity makes them hard to compress, creating a new compute bottleneck for AI development.