In traditional software development process two artifacts are created. The obvious one is software. The second, is knowledge of the problem domain in the development team heads.

We could take the Hofstadter idea and say that there is an isomorphism between these two artifacts. Software is a manifestation of the team's knowledge the way an organism is a manifestation of a genome.

With AI, the second artifact is no longer necessarily produced. We don't need to have a team that, as the project progresses, slowly becomes a group of domain experts. Experts that can drive the project direction. Experts that, with time, can see the flaws in their first project and start new breakthrough projects to fix these flaws.