Is software development just a decades-long stopgap before AI takes over?
dbasch · x · 2026-10-07
X user dbasch offers an analogy: one day we may look back at "software development" as a stopgap way to make computers do what we wanted—like scribes before the printing press, except it only lasted a few decades. The take frames programming as an intermediary layer that AI may progressively eliminate.
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