Stripe observes Jevons paradox in AI-powered engineering
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-08-18
Will Gaybrick, President of Product & Business at Stripe, discussed how AI is changing product development on the a16z channel. He noted a Jevons paradox: engineers can build more in less time, yet the backlog of valuable software appears to be growing with them.
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