In the AI era, attention and ruthless reprioritisation of development effort may be the rate-determining steps.
In the AI era, the rate-determining step seems to be attention: where we direct it, and how well we protect it.
AI can help solve more of the tasks in front of us, but it does not decide which problems deserve our effort. That makes it even more important to harness attention and ruthlessly reprioritise development work.
A lot of the rest seems solvable. Knowing what matters enough to work on may be the harder part.