The Two-Sided Coin of AI-Assisted Coding

SoftBank’s recent declaration that the era of human programmers is ending caught my attention, especially the audacious estimate that one thousand AI agents would be needed to replicate the capabilities…

THE ARTIST

One evening in the spring of 1985, as we were preparing our second issue (having, initially, seriously, forgotten we had to do that, so were now scrambling), I walked into…