Software Engineering

Something shifted this week. Not in the AI labs — in the culture. On Tuesday, the New York Times devoted an entire episode of The Daily to “vibe coding” — building software by describing what you want to an AI agent and letting it handle the actual programming. The same day, the NYT opinion section ran a piece declaring “The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived.” When the paper of record runs the same story in two different sections on the same day, that’s not a news cycle. That’s a cultural inflection point. ...

Spotify’s CEO told Wall Street this week that his best engineers haven’t written a single line of code since December. They just prompt AI and review what comes out. This isn’t a startup flex. This is a company with 600 million monthly users telling investors that code-writing is officially a machine’s job. And the implications go way beyond Spotify. The Supervisor Era Is Here Gustav Söderström didn’t hedge. His most senior engineers “only generate code and supervise it.” They’ve gone from architects to inspectors — and he’s thrilled about it. ...