A passage from one of the author’s comic novels of the 1980s clarifies a key user flaw of our AI present
You should have one, and you should say "no".
Why start a blog in 2026 anyway...
Why the user interface is the last to become regenerative
Single-developer capability isn’t a productivity story. It’s the test that tells you whether your architecture is worth keeping.
The Discipline That Looks Like Recklessness
Why Regeneration Does Not Mean Starting Over
Why "Never Upgrade in Place" Now Applies to Software
Why behavior outlives implementations
Better shapes beat better prompts
Why AI makes the hidden economics of software unavoidable
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.