AI Makes Adding Features Faster – So Why Not Add Just One More?
The article discusses the impact of AI on software development, particularly how it has accelerated the process of adding features. With AI tools, tasks that once took days can now be completed in hours, leading to a shift in how developers evaluate the necessity of new features. This newfound speed raises the challenge of determining which features should actually be built, as the traditional constraints of time have been removed.
- ▪AI coding tools have significantly reduced the time required to implement new features in software development.
- ▪The traditional evaluation of whether to build a feature has shifted from a time-based decision to a more complex consideration of necessity and future implications.
- ▪Developers now face the challenge of distinguishing between desirable features and those that are essential, as the cost of experimentation has decreased.
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grith/Blog/AI Makes Adding Features Faster - So Why Not Add Just One More?AI Makes Adding Features Faster - So Why Not Add Just One More?grith team·May 19, 2026·12 min read·build-in-publicShareShare on XSubmit to HNgrith is launching soonA security proxy for AI coding agents, enforced at the OS level. Register your interest to be notified when we go live.I've been shipping software professionally for somewhere north of thirty years. Field Logic (fieldlogic.uk) is the current company, grith is the current product, and at this point I've lost count of how many side projects I've started before deciding the scope was wrong and either cutting it down or quietly shelving the thing. There's a pattern to side projects that anyone who's done a few of them will recognise. You write down the MVP.
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