AI cannot “make features functionally free”
Because software success is bounded by HUMAN cognition. Humans need to actually apply this stuff to achieve human outcomes. Infinite feature bloat is not how you build software that achieves human outcomes.
And last I checked, the AI doesn’t have a bank account.
And that’s before we even get into how challenging it is to manage complexity at the code level.
Anyone who says AI erases opportunity cost needs the keys taken away, I’m sorry.