The work behind the work is dead

One document to rule them all

Your PM just wasted three hours updating eight tools because someone changed “monthly” to “annual” in a pricing doc. Three hours playing telephone with software.

First, it’s updating the PRD in Notion. Then creating tickets in Linear. Mocking up flow changes in Figma. Writing technical specs in GitHub. Notifying stakeholders in Slack. Updating projections in Google Sheets. Emailing legal about terms. Scheduling alignment meetings.

We’ve built the equivalent of hiring eight translators just so two people who speak the same language can have a conversation—costing teams thousands of wasted hours every year.

This is the dumbest tax in tech. We’ve created AI that writes entire applications from plain English, yet we’re still copy-pasting between Linear and Notion like it’s 2015.

The solution already exists: if we’d pause long enough from managing our tool zoo to notice.

One document should control everything. Not a PRD. Not a ticket. Just plain English describing exactly what you want. Change pricing from monthly to annual in your spec, and watch GitHub generate the PR, Figma draft the new flow, and Linear create the subtasks.

Engineers still review code. Designers still perfect pixels. But the grunt work, the endless translation between tools, vanishes.

We already have all the pieces. Claude Code turns English into apps. MCP lets systems share context seamlessly. ChatPRD structures ideas automatically. Cursor understands entire codebases at a glance.

Here’s what’s coming next: a customer support ticket instantly triggering automatic PR generation. AI reads the complaint, updates the master spec, creates the fix, assigns it for review. No routing, no meetings, no “let me check with engineering.”

By 2026, companies juggling eight separate tools for one minor update will look as archaic as those still clinging to fax machines.

The work behind the work died the moment AI learned to read English. Your spec becomes the product. Everything else is just execution.