Monday, April 28, 2025

Solving "Mythical AI Agent Month": Sourcegraph

Sourcegraph was created 10 years ago with an objective to solve "The Mythical Man-Month" problem
by providing source code search and organization tool. 

Now, the same problem still exists, and with using "AI Agents" to generate source code on large scale, it is potentially even worse, there is much more messy code to manage. 

So new tools and processes are being created to effectively manage code projects.

Sourcegraph and the Frontier of AI in Software Engineering with Beyang Liu - Software Engineering Daily (podcast)


The Mythical Man-Month - Wikipedia

a book on software engineering and project management by Fred Brooks first published in 1975,

adding manpower to a software project that is behind schedule delays it even longer. This idea is known as Brooks's law,


So updated version of this "law"

adding AI to a software project that is behind schedule delays it even longer. 


"AI Overview"

The saying "It takes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many women you get pregnant" illustrates that a single pregnancy and birth takes nine months, regardless of the number of women involved.

The phrase, often attributed to Fred Brooks in his book "The Mythical Man-Month," emphasizes that simply increasing resources (people) doesn't guarantee a faster outcome, especially in complex projects.

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