When Everyone Does Build
Part two of 'When Everyone Can Build': the month the flood arrived, in data. Cheaper builds, many more of them, and a bill that moved to where dashboards don't look.
'When everyone can build, what is left?' has a sequel question: what happens when everyone does? AI has collapsed the cost of producing software while leaving the cost of producing value nearly untouched. Cheap builds mean many more builds, each rational alone while the portfolio grows past what any organisation can govern, integrate, or absorb: a Jevons-style rebound that nobody has measured in aggregate yet, though every condition for it is now visibly forming. The prototype was never the expensive part. The winners, enterprise and founder alike, will improve at selection, consolidation and removal at the same speed AI improves creation, because production has stopped being the bottleneck. Absorption is.
