Cross-platform isn't about less code anymore. It's about fewer decisions, faster iterations, and one team at full speed in a world where AI can write code but can't decide what to build. There's a metaphor that keeps surfacing in my conversations with founders and engineering managers: imagine you learned ONE magic spell that works in every kingdom. Swift only works in Apple's land. Kotlin only in Android's. But Flutter? One spell, everywhere. Same codebase. iOS. Android. Web. Desktop. Embedded. For the last six years, that pitch was usually answered with a tradeoff conversation: "yeah but native is faster, more idiomatic, has better tooling, the team already knows Kotlin..." Fair points, all of them. But the conversation has shifted. AI happened.…