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The $40 Question: When Execution Gets Cheap, Imagination Is the Constraint

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The most valuable work in your company right now is on nobody's backlog, and your operating model has no way to fund it. A backlog is a list of work somebody already knew how to ask for, and for twenty years that was its strength. Execution was the expensive part of software, so the discipline that…

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  1. 2026-08-28 10:56 · DEV Community — AI
    The $40 Question: When Execution Gets Cheap, Imagination Is the Constraint

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