--- title: On Bottlenecks | daily.dev description: An essay argues that every stage of building software—language, mathematical modeling, programming, code review, testing—has been treated as a bottleneck to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/on-bottlenecks-q8kyfz4yf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: On Bottlenecks | daily.dev og:description: An essay argues that every stage of building software—language, mathematical modeling, programming, code review, testing—has been treated as a bottleneck to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/on-bottlenecks-q8kyfz4yf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/q8KYFz4yF.png og:image:alt: On Bottlenecks og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # On Bottlenecks **[DevelopSense](https://daily.dev/sources/developsense)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An essay argues that every stage of building software—language, mathematical modeling, programming, code review, testing—has been treated as a bottleneck to eliminate, often through automation or AI. 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