Quoting Laurie Voss

Laurie Voss argues that as the cost of writing code collapses, the cost of reviewing, fixing and operating it is following, leaving product definition and usability as the whole job. Voss writes that this cost is per piece of software and does not transfer, so as the amount of software goes to infinity, that cost becomes the entire job.

The cost of writing code collapsed, and the cost of reviewing, fixing and operating it is following, and I'm assuming it gets there. What's left of making software is finding out what people actually want, defining it precisely, and making it pleasant to use. That cost is per piece of software and doesn't transfer, so as the amount of software goes to infinity, which it will because there's no ceiling on demand, that cost becomes the whole job. — Laurie Voss https://seldo.com/posts/we-are-all-product-engineers-now/ , We are all Product Engineers now Tags: laurie-voss https://simonwillison.net/tags/laurie-voss , generative-ai https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai , agentic-engineering https://simonwillison.net/tags/agentic-engineering , ai https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai , llms https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms , deep-blue https://simonwillison.net/tags/deep-blue , careers https://simonwillison.net/tags/careers