Azeem Azhar

So they're not buying the software.

They're probably externalizing certain capabilities in these tools for themselves and for their customers.

And one of the things I found really remarkable was that the lead developer of Claude Code, Claude Code is Anthropix's coding tool.

He revealed that in December, 100% of his code contributions were written by the AI itself.

And he wrote 40,000 lines of code.

And he describes it as editing and directing rather than typing syntax.

You know, it's the ultimate in the kind of leadership role that you might have.

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.