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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.

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