Engineering

In 1975, Edsger Dijkstra diagnosed a fifty-year-old delusion: that programming’s difficulty is a translation problem, solvable by better tools, rather than a reasoning problem. AI is the latest tool wearing that old promise, and it cannot close the gap it was never built to close. [Read More]

AI did not invent software engineering. It inherited it, from generations of engineers who spent decades discovering what worked and why. Removing the people who renew that inheritance does not just risk buggy code. It risks a profession that keeps producing software while losing the ability to produce engineers. [Read More]

Harness-based development produces every visible sign of engineering rigor (green tests, merged pull requests, upfront specs) without the substance rigor is supposed to guarantee: correct software, and humans still capable of noticing when it isn’t. [Read More]