The closed system of software engineering, where the complexity of the code acted as both a wall and a gatekeeper.AI didn’t touch what engineers actually know. It ended their power to be the only ones who could say what was possible.When I started out as an information architect, one of my first projects was a massive enterprise product. By the time my boss assigned it to me, the tech specs had been written and the features defined. My job was to turn them into wireframes.I spent three weeks burning the midnight oil trying to get every detail right, reviewing with my boss, making sure I’d translated the documentation into a solid user experience.Then came the night we presented it.I got through wireframe number three, of about a hundred and twenty, before the engineering PM interrupted. “No, not in scope.” I brushed it off as one thing I’d probably gotten too exuberant about and kept...