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"Coding is not solved": an engineer’s case against the AI-replaces-programmers narrative
Worth reading for the specific failure modes it lists, whichever side you’re on.
Alex Ewerlöf argues that cheap code generation leaves the expensive parts of software—maintenance, reliability, security, scalability—unsolved, and that even functional requirements remain hard. The post drew 585 points on Hacker News.
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No Silver Bullet
After exploring Coding is NOT solved, the classic version of this argument is No Silver Bullet.
Fred Brooks’s 1986 paper arguing no single technology will bring a tenfold gain in software productivity within a decade.
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