Creativity is the Bottleneck, Not Syntax - The New Era of the 100x Developer
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For the last fifty years, the greatest barrier to innovation hasn't been a lack of good ideas. It has been the Syntax Tax.
As developers, we have spent 90% of our careers acting as translators. We take a creative, human solution and spend weeks—or months—painstakingly translating it into a language a machine can understand. We wrestle with brackets, fight with legacy dependencies, and spend late nights debugging boilerplate code that has nothing to do with the actual problem we are trying to solve.
In this old world, syntax was the bottleneck.
But at Priset, we’ve reached a tipping point. With the advent of autonomous, multimodal engineering partners, the "How" is becoming a solved problem. And that changes everything.
