"In 2025, AI-assisted building closed this chasm. Translating how software should work was never the hard part for designers. Translating that understanding into code was. AI didn't lower the bar; it removed it."
"This is exactly where we are with software now. We are turning software into fast fashion. Because "AI". (...) This is often framed as liberation: Every human being can now have the software tool they want. Without having to learn to code or without having to ask someone else. You think it, you get it."
"I am generally curious about the concept of legibility of work. Look around in your workplace. You can find documents, messages, presentations, design files. Evidence of people's work. While it may look like a lot, there is a whole other type of work that is very hard to see. The invisible work."
"It does not matter if AI companies will not be able to get their money back and the stock market will crash. All that is irrelevant, in the long run. It does not matter if this or the other CEO of some unicorn is telling you something that is off putting, or absurd. Programming changed forever, anyway."
In 2025 AI-assisted building closed the chasm between design understanding and executable code. Designers no longer struggle to express how software should behave because AI translates design intent into implementation. Roles shift from writing code to orchestrating intelligent agents that assemble and execute features. Software production accelerates into a fast-fashion model where customized tools are created on demand without coding. A significant portion of valuable work remains invisible, including legibility, coordination, and documentation that do not appear in files. Market volatility or anti-AI rhetoric does not reverse the fundamental change in programming and tool creation.
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