As code gets abundant, software engineering’s scarce resource becomes trust
dawnsongtweets · x · 2026-07-28
The post says the deepest shift is economic: software becomes abundant while trust becomes scarce. It identifies specification synthesis, long-horizon evaluation, trustworthy verification, provenance, security and governance as the main research problems, arguing that preserving human intent becomes the central challenge once coding is no longer the bottleneck.
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