- Author
- Dave Griffith (Dancing with Robots Substack)
- Published
- 1 September 2025
- Kind
- Opening post of a personal Substack newsletter, with anecdote and opinion
- Original
- davegriffith.substack.com/p/software-development-in-the-time
- Subject
- Coding with agents
What it is
Dave Griffith is a software architect with more than thirty-five years of experience. The post launches the newsletter and sets out the author's view of agentic AI. It also advises organizations and developers.
What it says
- Griffith says a senior US developer costs about $150 per hour. That figure shaped practice.
- Griffith claims agentic AI broke that link. Feature cost becomes near-zero AI time plus review.
- Griffith says the new bottleneck is knowing what to build, not writing code.
- Griffith argues speed buys quality only for teams that already know good practice.
- Griffith predicts most organizations will fail at this, through failed integration, debt or AI-native rivals.
- Griffith warns that developers who only turn specs into code will struggle. Engineers need business sense and taste.
What evidence it gives
The main evidence is one anecdote. Claude Code wrote a random Java class generator and tests that found dozens of issues. The $150 figure is called an approximation. Other claims are argument and prediction.
Interests and limits
The anecdote covers one side project over a short time. The post launches a newsletter, so the author has a stake in attention. Predictions about organizations and jobs are untested. Comments below the post were only partly shown.