What happens when AI writes most of the code?

I’ve been thinking about how AI changes what it means to build software.

For me, the interesting part isn’t that AI can write code faster. It’s that implementation is becoming so cheap that other things start to matter more.

• Taste. What do I actually want to build?
• Judgment. How do I know what AI made is good?
• Engineering criteria. What am I optimizing for? Simplicity, performance, reliability, maintainability?
• Scope. Just because I can build something doesn’t mean I should.

And maybe most importantly, desire. Do I care enough about the idea to keep pushing it when the easy part is over?

Maybe the interesting shift isn’t from humans writing code to AI writing code.

Maybe it’s from writing code to deciding what deserves to exist, and finding the people with enough desire and conviction to actually make it happen.

That’s the part I don’t think AI can replace.