SOFTWARE

Everyone has access to a pencil. Yet almost no one writes a good novel. Everyone has access to instruments. Yet almost no one composes a good album. "AI will enable everyone to create incredible apps" is exactly the same reasoning. Code has never been the real skill. Code is the pencil, it's the medium. What AI agents automate is the friction of the medium. But building good software requires mastering dozens of concepts that have nothing to do with typing code: – thinking in systems, understanding how components coexist – structuring data so it scales and remains maintainable – having taste in UX, knowing what makes a product excellent versus adequate – knowing how to define a problem before solving it – understanding architecture, edge cases, tradeoffs A novelist doesn't struggle because the pencil is hard to hold. They struggle because they need to master narrative arcs, worldbuilding, style, pacing, tension. The pencil is the easiest part of the equation. Software is the same. The barrier to entry for builders has never been code. It's everything that comes before and around it. AI agents will create more builders. But not more good builders. Just like universal access to pencils didn't create more good novelists. [Translated from EN to English]

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