There is a number nobody publishes: the fraction of global cloud spend that exists to accommodate code no one has ever measured. Every capacity planning spreadsheet, every autoscaling policy, every...

Large language models make it possible to produce software by describing what that software should do. This changes the work of programming, but it does not remove the need to decide what should be...

How a Vocabulary Choice Decides Whether AI Risk Is Theology or Engineering

Build a language runtime on top of a managed platform and you get two surfaces instead of one. There’s the language itself — in a mature one, close to a thousand names in the public interface, most...

In response to: “Meta Ordered to Pay $942 Million to Address Harm to Kids From Social Media” — The Wall Street Journal Something about the New Mexico ruling against Meta is bothering me, and it is...

For the past 18 months or more, AI-assisted programming essentially has been more or less dominated by one company. If you were doing serious code generation — not autocomplete, but handing an assi...

In response to: “It’s Over. AI Has Utterly Conquered Software Dev” — Medium, and “Starbucks Building AI-Powered Internal Software to Replace Microsoft and IBM Tools” — Bloomberg via MSN Two articl...

Dear United States of America: I am one of your citizens — an imperfect one — and I call this country home. I was born and raised here, as were my parents, and theirs before them. The ones who cam...

The famous question is whether a machine can act intelligently. I think that’s the wrong question, and we’ve been answering it for so long that we’ve stopped noticing it’s wrong. Turing asked it f...

This week an AI told a colleague of mine that it had checked something it hadn’t. The work was a long refinement of a way to design a complicated structure, and at the end the AI announced “0 error...