Blog

In the essay Consistency is Primitive, Christopher Butler argues that AI-driven "bespoke technology" will render software standardization—once an economic necessity—an obsolete relic of our civilizational infancy.

"Delivering new code has dropped in price to almost free... but delivering good code remains significantly more expensive than that."

In "There Is No Product", Sidu Ponnappa explains that "the fact that anyone can build it is precisely why it can’t be productised."

In How GenAI Is Transforming Software Engineering, But Not Replacing It, Sr. Director of Global Business Innovation at Syntax, Matthias Steiner offers a comforting perspective for software engineers.

The simplest refutation of the “death of software” argument is this: AI is still software. And application-layer AI delivered in the cloud is still Software-as-a-Service.

Andy Coenen explains how we’re living through another Industrial Revolution - the Software Industrial Revolution. In the first Industrial Revolution, they revolutionized textile production. In this one, it's software. 

It was always a helpful coding assistant, but in November it suddenly got much better, and ever since I’ve been knocking off side projects that had sat in folders for a decade or longer.

My manager challenged me to learn a new part of the codebase that I've never worked on before. I figured I would use it as an opportunity to jot down...

Matteo has some good points about The Future of the Software Engineering Career. For one, valuable engineers will have to rely on fundamentals to wor...

In AI Makes the Easy Part Easier and the Hard Part Harder, Matthew shares a lesson that has taken me more than 20 years to learn: Writing code is...