Here’s the part that deserves more attention imo: the barrier being lowered isn’t just about writing code faster. It’s about the types of problems that become economically viable to solve with software. Think about all the internal tools that don’t exist at your company. Not because no one thought of them, but because the ROI calculation never cleared the bar. The custom dashboard that would make one team 10% more efficient but would take a week to build. The data pipeline that would unlock insights but requires specialized knowledge. The integration that would smooth a workflow but touches three different systems.
Quote Citation: Addy Osmani, “Addy Osmani on X: “Every time we’ve made it easier to write software, we’ve ended up writing exponentially more of it. When high-level languages replaced assembly, programmers didn’t write less code - they wrote orders of magnitude more, tackling problems that would have been economically” / X”, 2025-12-26, https://x.com/addyosmani/status/2005768629691019544