7. Quantity without quality is real — but veterans get both (2026-10-13)
“AI makes software quantity explode while quality stays flat” — true, but that describes people with agency and no taste.
The complete formula is agency × veteran taste: agency decides whether you dare to act and how fast you move; taste (judgment, engineering fundamentals, knowing what’s right) decides whether the thing is any good. Multiply the two and quantity and quality rise together. Multiply only half and you get quantity without quality.