Code is cheap. Judgment is the constraint.

Code is now the cheapest part of building software. Most teams are still organised as if it is the expensive part.

Look at where your senior people spend their day. Reviewing diffs, unblocking the build, writing the hard code by hand. Most of that just got cheaper, and the agent now does a real share of it. The thing that did not get cheaper is the part nobody can generate.

The expensive part moved

It is the decisions. What to build and what to leave out. How good is good enough to ship this. Where a human has to own the call, and where an agent can run to the end. None of that got faster, and it is where the leverage now sits.

So the question for this quarter is simple. Is your structure pointing your best judgment at the decisions, or at the code?

Point judgment at the decisions

Most orgs still reward the people who write the most code, and treat the spec as a quick step before the real work. That made sense when code was the constraint. It is not anymore.

Built around cheap code	Built around scarce judgment
Rewards the most lines shipped	Rewards the calls that did not need rework
The spec is a quick step before the real work	The spec is the real work
Senior people write the hard code	Senior people own the decisions, and encode them

Put your strongest people on the decisions. Get the judgment that is stuck in their heads into the platform, so the team inherits it instead of rediscovering it every sprint. That is the platform-first move: the structure changes before the team shape does, not after.

Cheap code does not make engineering cheaper. It moves the cost to the part you cannot generate.