Building Software in the Age of AI
Co‑Written with ChatGPT Large language models have made writing code dramatically cheaper. What they have not made cheaper is judgment. In fact, as code generation accelerates, architectural mistakes, unowned abstractions, and hidden coupling become more dangerous, not less. Entropy compounds faster when mistakes are easy to replicate. The scarce skill is no longer syntax mastery — it is design discipline. The real shift AI does not replace builders. It redefines the builder’s role. ...