Given that it's just as often programmers who have no clue what to build with the coding capacity offered by AI agents, I WOULD say the issue is that many people are horribly uncreative. https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/24/jasmine-sun/

Justin Searls

A brief commentary arguing that the real limitation with AI coding agents isn't technical capability, but rather a lack of creativity among programmers who don't know what to build with these tools. The observation suggests that having coding capacity is meaningless without creative vision for what to create.

Given that it's just as often…