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2026-08-29
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Engineering Process
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Upstream Work in the AI Era — When Code Gets Cheap, What Gets Valuable?
When implementation gets cheap, which parts of the cost remain, and what becomes expensive by comparison? We put the relationship between deciding and reworking into an equation, then design specs for AI as lossy compression of intent — starting from zero assumed knowledge.