YES. This is the part everyone gets wrong. I've been using Claude Code as my primary dev environment for months now, and the biggest shift isn't that I write code faster- it's that I stopped treating documentation as a chore. When the AI can actually read and use your docs, you start writing them for real.

The productivity narrative is honestly a distraction from what's actually happening: we're finally building systems that make knowledge transfer work. The "citizen architect" trend you mention is already happening - I've watched non-technical founders ship working prototypes in days, not because the code is simpler, but because the collaboration model changed.