I'm Leonardo Kameya. I've been writing code for a while now, and the landscape has fundamentally shifted. The current development model feels outdated when you look at what AI tools can do. Execution—the part that used to be the bottleneck—is now cheap and fast. The real challenge has flipped: it's no longer about writing code, it's about figuring out what needs to be built and how to structure the work.

This creates a strange tension. Everything we built to accelerate coding—frameworks, libraries, methodologies—now clashes with a reality where execution happens almost instantly. The agile models that served us well might not be the best fit anymore. When you can prototype in hours instead of weeks, when features can be implemented in the same day, the old sprint planning rituals start to feel like unnecessary overhead. We're holding onto processes designed for a world where writing code was the hard part, but that's no longer true.

What still matters? Clarity above all. The ability to bring ideas to reality quickly and iterate with clients in real-time. It's not about planning massive releases weeks in advance—it's about testing as you go and constant updates. Meetings should focus on generating good ideas and validating assumptions, not going through rituals that made sense when execution took weeks. The feedback loop has compressed dramatically: what used to take weeks now happens within hours.

The core values that remain relevant are coherent thinking and sound technical decisions. Being accountable. Generating results through rapid iterations. But there's a new dimension: the ability to think at a different scale. The professionals who will stand out are those who can navigate this new paradigm—who understand that execution is no longer the constraint, and who are willing to set much bigger objectives because of it. When you can build in hours what used to take weeks, your scope of ambition should expand proportionally.

This changes what it means to be a software professional. Technical skills are still important, but they're table stakes. The real differentiator is strategic thinking—understanding what to build, why to build it, and how to structure work so that rapid iteration leads to meaningful outcomes. Teams will iterate on ideas in real-time, testing hypotheses with actual users within hours of conception.

This shift requires dealing more with relationships. We'll need strong soft skills to navigate the changes in how we work and to adopt a different mindset—both individually and as groups—toward setting and achieving bigger objectives. When execution is no longer the constraint, success becomes more about alignment, communication, and the ability to coordinate complex initiatives across teams. The technical work gets easier, but the human work gets more important.

The transition isn't easy. There's resistance from established processes, comfort with familiar methodologies, and the natural human tendency to optimize for the problems we used to have. But the shift is happening whether we're ready or not. I'm choosing to lean into it, to build the skills and mindset needed for a world where the bottleneck is no longer execution, but vision, clarity, and the ability to make good decisions quickly.