Rachel Laycock explores the widening perception gap between non-technical people who now build impressive apps in a weekend using AI, and engineers who understand what it takes to run software in production. She argues that AI-driven citizen building and agent execution don't eliminate the need for engineering expertise; instead they make engineering judgement scarcer and more valuable, as experts shift from writing code to governing architecture, security, resilience, and trust. Her framing: citizens build, agents execute, experts govern.
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