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...

Technology is not ethical. It just is. A gun is not good or bad. It’s a gun. It does what guns do — puts a small piece of metal through whatever you point it at. The ethics live in the person hold...

I wrote recently (James, AI, and the Case for Works) that the useful thing to add to the conversation about AI isn’t another opinion. It’s a report — an account of what happened when you actually u...

The Bible’s Letter of James was written to people who had plenty of belief and not much to show for it. They could recite the creed. They could pass any test of doctrine you put in front of them. W...

For about two hundred years, we built our institutions around a particular kind of scarcity. The scarcity was skilled thinking — the kind that drafts a contract, diagnoses a sick machine, lays out ...

Wallstreet Journal article In response to: “Marc Benioff Says the Software Bears Are All Wrong About Salesforce” — The Wall Street Journal, April 19, 2026 When someone tells you their moat is com...