AI made generation cheap. It did not make judgment cheap.

Short summary

AI speeds up generation but not judgment. The real scaling lever is reducing decision volume through automated gates (tests, diffs, schema validators) before scaling teams. Only delegate to AI when something other than you can reject the answer.

• •AI made generation cheap but judgment stayed expensive; the gap is where AI adoption advice gets too optimistic
• •Delegate only when you have a machine-checkable gate (tests, linters, schema validators) to catch bad output before it reaches humans
• •Scale gates before scaling people—reduce the decisions reaching humans first, then train humans for what remains

Generated with AI, which can make mistakes.