At first glance, AI looks like it's speeding software up.
Code is written faster. Features ship quicker. Products launch in days instead of months.
But underneath, something counter-intuitive is happening.
As software becomes easier to create, more software gets created. And that creates a new problem — not of speed, but of overload.
Teams now spend less time building, and more time deciding what not to build.
Products grow faster than understanding. Interfaces fill with features no one fully owns. And systems become harder to reason about, not easier.
The bottleneck has quietly moved.
It's no longer engineering effort. It's coherence.
The teams that win won't be the ones who ship the most. They'll be the ones who remove the most.
In a world where software is cheap to create, clarity becomes the most expensive resource.
That's the shift worth noticing.