AI-assisted development has made building software dramatically cheaper. What took months now takes days. Sometimes hours. That’s genuinely exciting. It’s also creating a new failure mode. When building becomes easy, “just build it” starts winning arguments it shouldn’t win. The technical cost is low, the customer asked for it, the team is ready — what’s the counterargument? Here’s the one that doesn’t get said enough: vibe coding compresses development time. It does not eliminate product ownership. The real cost of a feature was never the sprint. It’s everything after — the bugs, the maintenance, the customer expectations, the CS team advocating for enhancements, the roadmap debates that never end. A customer asked us to build a better support dashboard. My team could vibe-code it in days. The argument for building was genuinely good — cleaner integration, better analytics, faster shipping. I still said no. Because the surface we’d be building on is one we’re strategically trying to make irrelevant. AI is making product discipline more important, not less. The question was never “can we build it?” It was always “should we own it?” submitted by /u/Pretty-Lauki-369
Originally posted by u/Pretty-Lauki-369 on r/ArtificialInteligence