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Quoting Laurie Voss

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  • Laurie Voss argues that the costs of writing, reviewing, fixing, and operating code are collapsing, shifting the focus of software development.
  • The remaining, crucial aspects of software creation are “finding out what people actually want, defining it precisely, and making it pleasant to use.”
  • This leads to the conclusion that “We are all Product Engineers now,” as these non-transferable, per-piece costs of product discovery and user experience become the entirety of the job due to infinite demand for software.