AI Made Coding Cheap. Coordination Is Still Expensive
AI dramatically accelerated individual coding and local execution. End-to-end delivery barely moved. We optimized leaf-node execution but left the tree structure completely manual. Business intent (“add fraud detection”) decomposes into tasks across teams, each carrying implicit assumptions that only conflict during integration. Performance budgets, data freshness requirements, and retry semantics remain undiscovered until week 8 of 10. AI can breeze through well-defined tasks with deterministic verification. But getting from business requirement to that well-defined task? That’s where projects die.
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