For most of my career, when I hit a problem I needed to solve with code, the first instinct was to go looking for something that already existed. Search GitHub, check NuGet, find a Stack Overflow thread, grab an open-source project and tweak it. The cost of writing something from scratch, even something small, was high enough that reuse almost always made sense.

AI has quietly changed that calculus. And I think it’s more significant than most people are giving it credit for.