Paul Ford, writing for The New York Times (gift link):
For a while, I must admit, it looked as if software developer
roles like mine were done for. How could we fight against tireless
robots? But our industry is slowly realizing that making truly
cutting-edge software still requires humans to think and work
together, to maximize their skill sets and to practice their
respective crafts. A.I. can write very good software, but it also
makes it easy to do someone else’s job badly, which is part of why
all those projects fail. Now that everyone can code, it’s become
clearer why many shouldn’t.
Ford, linking to his own column on Bluesky:
I just want one killer app before we get a killer robot.