Software-Design
The 80s solo developer and the modern AAA studio are separated by decades of compounding tooling. AI is just the latest component in a loop the Industrial Revolution ran for 250 years before software started. The paradigm-defining product is the software factory — and it hasn't shipped yet.
AI tools go straight from prompt to code, and the code becomes the source of truth. But code is noisy and incomplete. There's a missing layer between conversation and code — a model of what the system is and why — that would anchor decisions and stop signal from degrading over time.
AI has flipped who's waiting. The human now sits idle while the machine works. The natural response is to context-switch, but that's a symptom of tools designed for machines, not humans. The real fix is designing for human time.