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AI is breaking down the barriers to software development, but it also risks turning creativity into mass production. Much like postwar architecture, building faster doesn't necessarily mean building better. What if the real AI revolution isn't about producing more, but about giving us the freedom to imagine something different?
Agentic coding is not only lowering the cost of building software. It is also lowering the cost of replicating it. As implementation becomes easier to reproduce, competitive advantage shifts toward distribution, proprietary data, community, reputation, and the ability to decide what to build next.
For years we dismissed them as "stochastic parrots". Then we looked inside the black box. Here's what we found.
I dreamed of a cow falling off a mountain. The scene was entirely made up, yet it held together. That led me to an uncomfortable question about AI: is predicting the next word really the opposite of understanding? Maybe not, and maybe the stochastic parrot is a fair critique but not a sufficient one.