Supposing agents and their organization improve, it seems like we’re approaching a point where the cost of a piece of software will be driven down to the cost of running the hardware, and the cost of the tokens required to replicate it.

The tokens were “expensive” from the minds of humans …

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Daishiman 6 hours ago | parent [-]

It will be driven down to the cost of having a good project and product manager effectively understanding what the customer wants, which has been the main barrier to excellent software for a good long time.

	▲	galaxyLogic 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And not only understanding what the customer wants, but communicating that unambiguously to the AI. And note who is the "customer" here? Is it the end-users, or is it a client-company which contracts the project-manager for this task? But then the issue is still there, who in the client-company decides exactly what is needed and what the (potential) users want? I think this situation emphasizes the importance of (something like) Agile. To produce something useful can only happen via experimentation and getting feedback from actual users, and re-iterating relentlessly.