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Boris Tane argued that software will improve itself, saying agents now write most software but almost none of the production signal flows back to them. Other writers this week pushed back on how autonomous agents are, and Anthropic published a report on unintended model actions.
Sean Goedecke wrote that software's centaur age may last decades, with human-AI pairs beating either alone. From the Trenches questioned the claims that prompting is over, citing Boris Cherny and Peter Steinberger. The Last Software Engineer? compared radiologists, who were predicted to be replaced, to engineers.
