Not all software should change at the same speed. This has always been true, but it's easy to forget when tools make change frictionless. Generative AI dramatically lowers the cost of modification, which creates a dangerous illusion: that everything can ch...

Programming didn't die all at once. There was no single moment, no dramatic obsolescence event. Instead, something quieter happened: the core constraint that shaped software for seventy years dissolved. Writing code stopped being the hard part.

Software is entering a strange new phase. For most of its history, code was expensive to produce and cheap to keep. We treated it like a durable asset: written carefully, maintained lovingly, upgraded cautiously. Whole professions, identities, and institut...