AI collapses the cost of maintaining software you didn't write, so part of the buy column becomes buildable. The catch is the forks you now have to govern.
An MIT and Stanford study found AI gives sound financial advice, but the gains went to sophisticated users. Closing that gap is a product decision, not a literacy problem.
Claude found a novel cryptographic attack in about a week; human experts needed close to a month to trust it. That gap, not model quality, decides where AI pays off.
AI slashed the cost of shipping features but not the cost of reliability, so it amplifies whatever your organization already rewards. Most reward the wrong thing.
Stack Overflow's question volume fell 78% in a year. As the public corpus freezes, competitive advantage shifts to the knowledge your company still writes down itself.
AI makes producing work nearly free while draining the human judgment that catches it when it's wrong. Deciding which understanding to keep in-house is now strategic.
