https://roughedges.dev/tags/strategy/Recent content in Strategy on Rough EdgesHugoen-usMon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0400https://roughedges.dev/posts/ai-made-it-easy-to-build-the-wrong-thing/Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0400https://roughedges.dev/posts/ai-made-it-easy-to-build-the-wrong-thing/<p>Something genuinely changed in the last couple of years, and it&rsquo;s worth saying plainly before I complain about it. You can point an agent at a problem, describe what you want, and come back to running code. A small team can now produce, in a weekend, what used to take a department a quarter. Work that once required hiring, a budget, and a roadmap argument now takes an afternoon and a good prompt. I don&rsquo;t want to be glib about that – it&rsquo;s one of the most significant shifts in how software gets built that I&rsquo;ve seen.</p>