AI stands for artificial intelligence, yet I prefer the term Dr. Venkat Subramaniam used in one of his talks: Accelerated Inference. To my mind, it is far more accurate, so I have embraced it.And “accelerated” is precisely the point. With AI, generating code has become cheap; it is no longer the bottleneck of software development. What has become expensive, and what this article is really about, is everything around it: aligning outcomes with intent, owning what we ship, and exercising the judgment that no amount of acceleration can replace.