Building Got Cheap. Deciding Didn't.
AI made building software nearly free, but it did nothing for the other two costs in shipping it: deciding what to build, and aligning people around the decision. That's where the money went.
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Autonomy Without Accountability Is Just Expensive Chaos
The industry is obsessed with building smarter agents. The real gap is the control plane — the infrastructure that makes agents trustworthy, observable, and accountable at scale. Right now, that infrastructure barely exists.
You Can't Prompt Your Way to Judgment
AI is creating leaner teams and faster code, but it's quietly eliminating the conditions that build engineering judgment. The cognitive debt discourse is missing the point — experience debt is the real problem, and it won't show up on any velocity dashboard.