Do AI Agents Change How Products Get Planned?

Katelyn Lesse says the fundamentals of how software gets built, and of how products get planned and shipped, do not need to change just because agents speed up certain parts of the process. Putting a lot out is very easy, and the output can become product slop.

An almost-laziness is starting to come out of a lot of people. They feel there is no need to think about some part of the process at all, because the agents are doing the work and helping. Planning and shipping stay incredibly foundational, and they are still where time and energy should go.

As a founder or creator, the cost of experimentation and exploration is so low now that doing more of both is what feels called for. Someone else is saying not to do the extra exploration, and to use the tool in service of a very intentional goal set at the start. She is coming around to that goal. The shift is hard: the tool does everything, and the impulse is to throw work at the wall.