Archive: 2026-09

“A developer vibe-coding a side project a dozen people will ever run, and a team keeping a ten-year-old enterprise system alive for another quarter, share almost no constraints worth naming, and most of the advice in circulation is really one of those two people telling the other how to live.” — Addy Osmani on agentic review (2026-09-16 · addy.osmani, ai, mlp, quotable )

“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.” — Paul Ford on whither the AI software revolution (2026-09-14 · ai, ftrain, mlp, nytimes, paul.ford, paulford, quotable, software )