Tag: validation
The Anatomy of a $900,000 Validation Bill
A 50-developer team shipping at an agentic pace will spend roughly $900,000 this year on AI and developer tooling costs. Most of the engineering leaders I've talked to saw the compute costs ...
When Code Becomes Cheap, Engineering Becomes Governance
Alan Shimel | | AI code generation, AI-assisted development, apprenticeship, architecture, code governance, code oversight, democratization of coding, developer productivity, developer supervision, end of programming myth, governance era, industrialized programming, integration risk, maintainability, operations, security risk, software reliability, systems thinking, technical debt, validationAI agents can now generate in minutes what once took teams weeks, but the real shift is not faster coding. It is the collapse of code scarcity. As software production becomes industrialized, ...
