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Motley Fool Money · Saturday, June 27, 2026

Scott Phillips: The bottleneck is creativity, not coding ability, thanks to AI

Scott Phillips shared an observation from interviewing a CEO that creativity has become the primary bottleneck in development, a shift from the past where developer talent was the limiting factor. He emphasized that AI has democratized app creation, allowing anyone with an idea to build it quickly.

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He said, the bottleneck is creativity.
Scott Phillips
And I thought, I thought that was a really great way of putting it because before, the bottleneck was like, you know, we got 100 grand ideas, but we've only got so many developers, we've only got so much time, only so much cash.
Scott Phillips
Now it's like, if we can imagine it, we can build it really quickly.
Scott Phillips
Heard on Motley Fool Money — “Mailbag, incl: What metrics should government use? June 28, 2026, published Saturday, June 27, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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