When Anyone Can Build Software, Who Decides What Not to Build?

Generation is cheap, but deciding what deserves to become permanent is not. The author argues that as AI collapses the cost of building software, the architect's real value shifts from producing artifacts to exercising judgment before commitment—arbitrating across domains before capital, data, and organizational behavior are locked in. The post doesn't cite specific cases or numbers, but the thesis is clear: cheap generation accelerates commitments without removing their long-term costs.