Two to four weeks. Five figures. A document, maybe some wireframes. No working software. Discovery phases exist because most consultancies don't know what they're building, and someone has to pay while they figure it out.
Every feature you don't build is a week you ship earlier. The arithmetic is brutal.
The code that needs the least maintenance is the code that watches itself. A brief on designing for self-correction.
AI can write quite good code. What it can't do is feel when something is spiritually wrong for the product you're trying to build. That gap is where the value lives.
When agent-hours cost less than human-hours, the unit of capacity changes. So does the org chart, the cost structure, and what it means to scale.