I don’t think that’s the issue. The problem is that with software you don’t know what a user might like until something is in production.

This is probably true of other fields too. But rolling back changes there is expensive (example construction).

But with software you can get to put things out and iterate. This is not to say identifying what’s needed isn’t important but you had roles where the product owner is getting feedback for the previous iteration while the devs are working on the current one.

With code assistants this loop collapses a LOT. Suddenly it can be a lot easier to define better what you need and in near real time also gauge how it would operate.

Both are true “leave me alone” and “you don’t know what to build”. Because the people identifying what to build aren’t the people doing the building.