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AI Will Make Ideas Cheap. Judgment Will Become Expensive.
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AI Generte idea and brain
For most of the last 30 years, the hardest part of building technology was execution.
You needed engineers to write code, designers to craft interfaces, analysts to study markets, and operators to keep everything running. Ideas were abundant, but building them was expensive.
Artificial intelligence flips that equation.
AI makes execution cheap.
And when execution becomes cheap, something else becomes valuable.
Judgment.
The ability to decide what is actually worth building.
The Shift Many Leaders Are Missing
Recently I noticed how much my own workflow has changed.
I use AI coding tools almost every day to explore product ideas or test architecture concepts. Tasks that used to take hours now take minutes.
Need to explore a product idea?
Generate a quick prototype.
Need to test an architecture direction?
Ask AI to scaffold the system.
Need to validate a workflow?
Simulate the logic immediately.
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Written by Jazz Tong
Full-time father with 2, and part-time software engineer, passion for elegant solutions, save the world by killing tech-debt
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