You Can't Prompt the Room: The Last Skill AI Won't Replace - Balázs Horváth, VisualLabs
Writing code is no longer the bottleneck; eliciting the right requirements from stakeholders is the last skill AI won't replace.
“You can prompt your code, you can prompt your AI, you can prompt your whole specification, but you can't prompt your room.”
VisualLabs founder Balázs Horváth argues that as AI makes code generation cheap, the real bottleneck shifts to figuring out what is worth building by eliciting requirements from stakeholders. He cites an internal hackathon where 17 of 21 agent ideas were abandoned for lacking business value, underscoring that human 'reading the room' skills remain irreplaceable. It's a useful framing of the AI-era developer skillset but offers no novel data or major industry shift.