Maybe IT Was Never About the Technology? Code Is Cheap, 'Why' Is Getting Expensive

Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Conversations about AI in the team revolve around tools: Claude or Codex, which model, which plugin. It’s all secondary. Code is being written today faster than anyone can read it, so the bottleneck is no longer the speed of delivery.

The real problem is losing the connection to the question “why”. A change lands in the repo, but nobody remembers what problem it was solving, who approved it, or whether anyone should have at all.

Ai on devintrap.

Maybe IT Was Never About the Technology? Code Is Cheap, 'Why' Is Getting Expensive