Code has never been cheaper

Cheaper code and faster delivery do not guarantee a useful product. Conviction grounded in customer understanding gives the work direction.

By Vishnu Rajkumar · Marginalia

Sep 11, 2025#ai #enterprise #software #leadership #work #institutions

Originally published on linkedin

Code has never been cheaper. AI writes boilerplate. Frameworks abstract the mess. Agents squash bugs. Shipping is faster than ever.

And yet, very few teams actually build products that stick. Because when code is commoditized, conviction becomes the moat. Conviction isn’t stubbornness. Its imagination sharpened by customer truth.

Why conviction matters more than ever, and how it reshapes experimentation, planning, and customer empathy. Read about this inversion - link in comments.