I I have been thinking a lot about AI and software development lately. Not primarily about whether AI can write good code. That discussion is rapidly becoming less interesting. It clearly can, and it is getting better at it. The more interesting question is what happens to software development when writing the code is no longer the central activity. There is an obvious promise here. AI can remove repetitive work, shorten feedback cycles and let developers spend more time thinking about problems rather than translating solutions into code. Agent-based development can allow several pieces of work to progress in parallel. Better specifications can force us to be clearer about what we actually want. I find all of that genuinely exciting. But I have also started to wonder whether we are looking too narrowly at productivity. Software development doesn't just produce software. It also produces understanding, experienced engineers and, when it works well, teams. What happens to those thing...