February 4, 20261 min read
Code Cost Goes to Zero: What Will Actually Matter
Taste, distribution, and iteration speed: how AI changes product building and the role of development.
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Code Cost Goes to Zero: What Will Actually Matter
We’re entering an era where writing code becomes less scarce.
Code gets cheaper. Competition shifts.
What Gets Expensive
- taste and product sense
- distribution (marketing + sales)
- hypothesis speed: ship -> data -> iterate
Tool Mastery as Advantage
The bottleneck is no longer typing code. It’s decision-making and execution speed.
The winners are those who ship outcomes faster and can sell them.