When Code Costs Nothing, Judgment Becomes the Whole Job in Enterprise Software
sanjaykalra · x · 2026-10-31
- AI coding assistants can turn a vague requirement into a working prototype in an afternoon, moving the expensive part of enterprise tech from writing code to deciding what to build.
- Slow coding used to act as a filter forcing teams to question requirements first; that filter is gone — teams can now ship the wrong thing in two weeks and only learn after users work around it.
- The author cites Fred Brooks' 1986 "No Silver Bullet" ("the hardest part is deciding precisely what to build") and Andrew Ng on agentic coding making specification decisions the key bottleneck.
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