Intention Is All You Need

We spent twenty years telling everyone to learn to code. Now code writes itself. The question was never about code. It was about knowing what to build.

For two decades, “learn to code” was the safest career advice in the world. Now AI writes the code. But no one ever taught the harder skill: knowing what is worth building.

Consider what this looks like in practice. In January 2026, a three-person startup in Y Combinator’s latest cohort shipped a product in weeks that would have required a fifteen-person…