[Intro - piano vamp, bright] Ha! Okay! [Verse 1 - fast, proud] Eighteen months, forty engineers, a Series B and a whiteboard wall. We had a mission statement carved in oak, we had a launch party, we had it all. Three million lines of Python and Go, a migration nobody survived. I have never been so proud of anything that didn't need to be alive. [Pre-Chorus - drums drop, one voice] And then somebody opened up a file. [Chorus - big, happy, harmonies] It could have been a skill! It could have been a skill! Three million lines of glory and it could have been a skill! What it does, what it needs, what to watch for, how you know, that's three thousand words of markdown, and it could have been a skill! [Verse 2 - the ceremony, piling up, faster] We had a VPC, we had a service mesh, we had a Thursday war room too. We had a design system, we had a status page, we had a roadmap painted blue. We had an on-call rotation, we had a SOC 2, we had a dashboard no one read. We had a compliance report on a paragraph, we had a paragraph! That's all it ever was! [Chorus - big, happy, harmonies] It could have been a skill! It could have been a skill! Three million lines of glory and it could have been a skill! What it does, what it needs, what to watch for, how you know, that's three thousand words of markdown, and it could have been a skill! [Verse 3 - the agent, delighted and horrified] So I handed it to Claude on a Tuesday afternoon. It read the thing, it understood, it went and did the job, and it was finished before noon. It didn't need a login. It didn't need a seat. It didn't ask me for a demo or a quarterly offsite retreat. [Bridge - the ladder, cheerful, building, handclaps] The meeting could have been an email! The email could have been a text! The text could have been a silence and the silence would have worked! The platform could have been a product! The product could have been a page! And the page, oh, the page could have been a skill! [Final Chorus - key change, everything, biggest] It could have been a skill! It could have been a skill! Three million lines of glory and it could have been a skill! What it does, what it needs, what to watch for, how you know, that's three thousand words of markdown, and it could have been a skill! Oh, it could have been a skill! [Outro - band stops, bright piano chord, spoken] I'm not upset. I'm not upset! ...I'm a little upset.
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