AI makes bad engineer ideas painfully transparent, argue theo and Greg Kamradt
GregKamradt · x · 2026-10-27
theo: "The ability to build anything has come with a critical lesson: engineers have really, really bad ideas." Greg Kamradt adds that AI makes the quality of your ideas and your agency more transparent — when building costs approach zero, the bottleneck shifts from execution to idea quality.
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