Beyond Code: Domain Expertise and Real Impact in the AI Era
Imagine a finance team waiting for an invoice-dispute workspace: a queue, supporting documents, assignment rules, and a connection to its accounting system. In this illustrative scenario, the feature once consumed weeks of sprint capacity. Now one engineer orchestrates agents that scaffold the implementation, tests, and deployment configuration in hours, using established components and contracts.
That is not an unattended production release. By that afternoon, the engineer and domain owners have reviewed the behavior, validated integration assumptions, and approved and shipped a bounded production pilot. But the change in economics is clear: creating a credible version of a familiar feature requires far less implementation effort. A competitor with similar tools can do the same.
The difficult question is no longer whether someone can produce the queue and its buttons. It is whether the workspace helps people resolve the disputes that keep money, decisions, and customer relationships stuck. When building is no longer the moat, what is?