Mental models, not coding agents, are now the biggest barrier to great products
mrjonfinger · x · 2026-11-12
Jon Finger argues that established mental models of how to build products are now a bigger barrier to great products than the limitations of coding agents themselves. The real bottleneck in the AI era isn't the tools' capability ceiling but builders clinging to old development paradigms.
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