"Coding is solved" never meant distributed systems, says .NET's David Fowler; Booch adds hard realtime
davidfowl · x · 2026-10-12
David Fowler, a core .NET engineer, quipped that the people claiming "coding is solved" by AI certainly did not mean distributed systems. Software engineering luminary Grady Booch chimed in: nor hard real-time systems.
The exchange highlights a blind spot of AI-coding optimism — in systems demanding cross-node coordination and strict timing guarantees, one-shot LLM code generation falls far short.
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