software engineering
If you built it, so can I
Everyone can build software now. That gives each of us more control, while quietly changing what happens to everything we learn along the way.
Don't confuse a demo with a product
AI can turn a prompt into polished software in an afternoon. The result looks finished, which makes one crucial question dangerously easy to skip.
AI makes building cheap, ownership is still expensive
Your coding agent can replace that SDK in twenty minutes. But what happens during the years that follow?
When organizations can build faster than they can agree
When building becomes cheaper than another alignment meeting, every team has a rational reason to ship its own solution. Who pays when all of them do?
"Coding is solved" misses the point
Every few weeks, someone declares that coding is solved. If they mean turning a well-specified problem into runnable code, they're increasingly right. But was writing runnable code ever the whole problem?