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## Quoting Laurie Voss

DevFeed: [Quoting Laurie Voss](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/quoting-laurie-voss-31178.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/14/laurie-voss/>)

Author: Simon Willison

Published: 2026-09-14T14:34:29Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Simon Willison's Weblog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/simon-willison-s-weblog.md>)

Topics: [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>)

Tags: [agentic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic.md>), [agentic-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic-engineering.md>), [agentic-engineering-63](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic-engineering-63.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-2-236](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-2-236.md>), [careers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/careers.md>), [careers-83](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/careers-83.md>), [deep](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deep.md>), [deep-blue](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deep-blue.md>), [deep-blue-12](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deep-blue-12.md>), [generative](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/generative.md>), [generative-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/generative-ai.md>), [generative-ai-1-982](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/generative-ai-1-982.md>), [laurie-voss](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/laurie-voss.md>), [laurie-voss-6](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/laurie-voss-6.md>), [llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms.md>), [llms-1-948](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms-1-948.md>)

### AI overview

A quotation from Laurie Voss argues that the cost of writing code has collapsed and that reviewing, fixing, and operating software may follow. It suggests that identifying user needs, defining them precisely, and making software pleasant to use could become the dominant remaining work as software production expands.

### Source excerpt

The cost of writing code collapsed, and the cost of reviewing, fixing and operating it is following, and I'm assuming it gets there. What's left of making software is finding out what people actually want, defining it precisely, and making it pleasant to use. That cost is per piece of software and doesn't transfer, so as the amount of software goes to infinity, which it will because there's no ceiling on demand, that cost becomes the whole job. -- Laurie Voss, We are all Product Engineers now Tags: laurie-voss, generative-ai, agentic-engineering, ai, llms, deep-blue, careers