Product Reflections in the AI Era: Lower Execution Costs Risk Overbuilding
mobileraj · x · 2026-08-14
Raj Shah shares a reflection on the current era of AI-assisted development: the drastically lower cost of execution today makes it very easy to overbuild software. He argues that before the AI coding era, the high cost of implementation forced teams into sharper, more disciplined product editing and decision-making.
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