Soloists, Copy-Pasters, and Tourists

The article argues that AI is changing the bottleneck in software delivery: code can be produced much faster, but the real constraint is now organizational judgment, architecture, review discipline, and the ability to keep systems understandable and secure. For CIOs and technology leaders, this means AI can materially boost throughput, but without stronger product direction, problem statements, design review, and guardrails, it can also increase operational risk, technical debt, and fragmented development practices across teams. IT organizations should expect uneven AI adoption patterns—from power users to skeptics—and manage them as a workforce transformation issue, not just a tooling rollout.