translation layer

Imported from historical reading log.

• Blog essay arguing AI compresses the org’s “translation layer” more than any single job title: spec→ticket→PR→release-note work gets cheap, while judgement around why/what/trust systems gets more valuable.
• Strong claim: middle-management and coordination-heavy roles shrink unless they actively contribute to product definition, architecture, evals, or verification.
• Newsletter angle: useful framing for how AI changes org shape, not “AI replaces engineers” but “AI eats translation work,” which shifts value toward taste, harnesses, and hands-on decision-makers.
• Retrieval note: extracted cleanly via web_fetch; article content was partial near the ending due to truncation, but the main thesis and supporting sections were readable.