Software Engineering in the Age of AI
For those of you who don’t know, when I’m not writing novels, I spend my days as a software engineer, writing code. The software industry these days relies heavily on artificial intelligence. Because it has studied trillions of lines of publicly accessible source code, because code solves problems with testable right and wrong solutions, and because code is structured specifically to be understood by computers, AI has gotten very good at writing code.
Software Engineering in the Age of AI June 28, 2026 For those of you who don't know, when I'm not writing novels, I spend my days as a software engineer, writing code. The software industry these days relies heavily on artificial intelligence. Because it has studied trillions of lines of publicly accessible source code, because code solves problems with testable right and wrong solutions, and because code is structured specifically to be understood by computers, AI has gotten very good at writing code. Before programmers started using AI, a typical workflow looked like this: Someone asks you t
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