[codingdave]

> And it's coming sooner than we think.

It actually has been here for a long time. People have worked off mockups, including interactive mockups for quite a while. Working alongside the end users to iteratively build software is basically what the Agile Manifesto was getting at.

AI can speed it up, certainly. But everything else you are describing is already how many teams work. I do agree that if more teams did it, our industry would improve.