Verification is the expensive thing now

Martin Fowler's latest fragments post collects several ideas about how AI is reshaping software development. The one that stuck with me is Ajey Gore's argument: as coding agents take over execution, verification becomes the premium activity. Gore puts it bluntly. Instead of ten engineers building, you might have three engineers plus seven people defining acceptance criteria and designing tests. The bottleneck moves from "can we write the code?" to "do we know whether the code is right?" This mat