AI cuts software developers some slack

My mom used to say that Hodges’s law was “Junk expands to fill the space allotted for it.” We lived in three houses over the years, each one bigger than the previous house as our family grew, and each house became just as full of junk as the one before it. Northcote Parkinson , whose famous law said the same about work—that it expands to fill the time given to get it done. In other words, if you say a task will take a week or two weeks, you’ll be right either way.