Did software eating the world really mean engineers eating it? AI may flip that
dansitu · x · 2026-10-09
The author reframes "software eating the world": in practice it meant software engineers eating the world, since only engineers could write code. With AI coding tools, they pose an open question — will AI empower domain experts to build their own companies without engineers, or just accelerate engineers' takeover? No conclusion is offered; it's a discussion prompt.
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