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On November 2, 2026, Yuchen Jin put forward the judgment that the biggest bottleneck in software engineering is no longer writing code, but human coordination. The coordination costs he listed include waiting hours for manual PR review, holding meetings to "align," finding people, and the entire line getting blocked when someone goes on vacation. He believes that AI has made writing code cheap, but organizations still run on human coordination, and that AI-native companies will be very different from today's companies. Currently, this judgment was published by Yuchen Jin himself, and there are no other developments or facts.
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Yuchen Jin: The software engineering bottleneck is no longer code, but people
Yuchen Jin believes that the biggest bottleneck in software engineering is no longer writing code, but human coordination: waiting hours for manual PR reviews, holding meetings for "alignment," finding people, and the whole line getting blocked when someone goes on vacation. AI makes writing code cheaper, but organizations still run on human coordination, and AI-native companies will be very different from today's companies.