The cost of saying yes has changed

AI-assisted code generation has inverted engineering economics: the debate about whether to build a feature now often costs more than building it. The skill shift required is learning to treat AI-generated patches as evidence for scope decisions, not finished products, and distinguishing between code that's cheap to write and changes that are cheap to own.

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