The cheapest edit in software became the most expensive one. Changing a button color in an AI app builder meant typing a paragraph, letting an agent reread your whole project, and waiting to find out it changed the other button. Doug Engelbart built the first mouse in 1964 to solve exactly this. Language is terrible at pointing. “The blue one, top right, under the headline” takes nine words and still misses. A click takes zero words and never does. AI builders quietly threw that away and put…