AI made writing features absurdly cheap; the bottleneck today is the lifetime…

AI made writing features absurdly cheap; the bottleneck today is the lifetime tax each feature carries — auth, retries, migrations, support, monitoring, compliance, and rollback paths. For a small Azure/Node product those recurring costs dominate maintenance and risk, not line count. My read is AI should change what we add: delete surface area more aggressively than we ship it, and treat every new endpoint as an ongoing bill to justify before it exists.