We told everyone that programming wasn't the hard part, but no one believed us. The reason LLMs can excrete sort-of-okay code is that sort-of-okay code has been a commodity good for 20+ years. Then, just like now, the bottleneck was understanding what people actually want. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/opinion/ai-software-coding-apps.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BFE.nAh4.9lnuKWCc1cvl