Charity Majors on AI coding: in 2026 it's no longer rational to be skeptical AI will change software development
mipsytipsy · x · 2026-09-18
Gergely Orosz published a 70-minute interview with Honeycomb co-founder Charity Majors on AI and the future of software development.
- Core claim: in 2025 it was rational to be skeptical about AI changing software development; in 2026, it isn't anymore
- Key quote: "Production is not what happens after development, it's a stage of development"
- Topics include: limits of individual productivity metrics, how her view of AI evolved, rewriting vs. editing code, non-deterministic systems, sensible uses of AI and the 'two AI camps', why AI works so well for building software, DevOps, modern observability, handling context overload, and what's new in Observability Engineering 2nd edition
A systematic statement of Majors' stance on AI from one of the most-cited voices in engineering culture.
Related event: Honeycomb Founder on AI Coding and Production-First Development(2 posts)→
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