Closing Time: A Theatre of Augmentation — Njå et al. (2026)
When AI removes the friction of building software, the practitioners doing the building are the first to learn what freed capacity becomes. Between 2024 and 2026, a CPO and a CTO in a small Norwegian PropTech startup lived through a capability shift that compressed tasks estimated as months into days. They built more, faster, and with fewer people than their team structure had required. They felt augmented. They also stopped sleeping well.
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Authors: Ola Njå, Arne Eirik Nielsen, Harald Holone, Suhas Govind Joshi, Jo Herstad…
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