Azeem Azhar

So one way that you might want to frame this as like the skill that's required in this world of building and making is the importance in being able to frame the right question, right?

To direct the right intent.

The economist, friend of exponential view, Eric Brynjolfsson has called this the chief question officer.

If the large parts of the execution phase of work, whether it's coding and calculation and certain classes of the doing, are increasingly commoditized and they happen quickly, value shifts to the complements.

I mean, that's classic economist framing, right?

The value shifts to the complements.

And in this case, that would be the problem formulation, the question asking, the intention seeking, and the evaluation, right?

Did I get what I needed?

And so the bottleneck shifts from writing the code to

Do you have a good enough backlog that you can articulate?

And can you formulate that problem?

And can you evaluate it?

I've gone through a year's backlog of stuff that I would just never get around to in just a day.

And so that backlog moves to knowing what's possible, what you need, what to get right.

It's no longer just an engineering mindset.

It is really a creative mindset.

It's an artist mindset.

Now, a lot of this is classic Jevons paradox.

So, you know, we're bringing down the cost of something, so we're going to do lots of it.

And what's happening is that we're building things that otherwise we simply wouldn't do.