If Agents Write the Code, Who Says What Good Is?
Agents close the distance between the need and the software. That surfaces a harder job: expressing how you know the need was met. You move the complexity, you do not remove it, and where good resists being written down, the human stays.
The Best Software Is Built Closest to the Need
Give a salesperson a way to build their own tool and they often build a better one than the team that builds software for a living. Not better engineered. Better fit. The reason is distance, and agents are about to change what that distance costs.
RAG Was Never Semantic Search
RAG and semantic search fused into one word. Pulling them apart surfaces the real question: where in your pipeline does anything actually think?
Do You Cap Your Engineers' Token Budget, or Not?
A flat monthly cap feels like control. It sails over the people who barely use the tools and lands entirely on the ones inventing how everyone works next year. The real choice was never cap or no cap.
Who Decides Which Version Is True
Most of what gets sold as a knowledge graph is a data graph with a better name. The hard part was deciding what counts as knowledge.