The Dev-Business Gap: Bridge or Bulldoze?

Here’s the age-old tech dilemma: business teams talk in visions, dreams, and OKRs. Developers talk in endpoints, bugs, and commit logs. Somewhere in between lies a vast chasm of miscommunication, where 'Can we just tweak this real quick?' translates into 'This will break production by Friday.' It’s not hostility, it’s just different planets trying to build the same spaceship.

The question is, do we need more people to bridge the gap, product managers, business analysts, translators of buzzwords, or can AI become the bridge? Sure, AI can summarize meetings, draft emails, and turn user stories into wireframes, but it still doesn’t understand that 'ASAP' is not a timeline and 'simple' is never simple when it comes to tech.

Maybe the real solution isn’t *more people* or *more AI*. Maybe it’s *better understanding*. Developers need to zoom out from the codebase and understand business goals. Business leaders need to stop treating devs like vending machines that take specs and return apps. We need more cross-functional curiosity and fewer passive-aggressive Jira tickets.

At the end of the day, building great products is a team sport. AI can help, yes, but it can’t replace empathy, human alignment, or a solid meme shared in a stand-up. So let’s stop yelling across the canyon and start building real bridges, ones that don’t 404.