What If... AI Compute Costs Soar?
Many organizations are leaning heavily into using generative AI for software development... but what if that becomes a lot more expensive?
The Structure of Engineering Revolutions
webdirections.orgTL;DR: The resistance to AI-assisted software development among experienced software engineers isn't random or capricious–it follows the pattern Thomas Kuhn identified in scientific revolutions sixty years ago. What we're witnessing isn't a tooling debate. It's a paradigm shift, complete with anomaly denial, incommensurable worldviews, and paradigm defence mechanisms that have played out very similarly in every intellectual revolution Kuhn observed. Understanding this pattern won't make the transition painless, but it might make it possible.
Week 393: Aristocrapts
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