Charity Majors: AI Made Code Disposable — But Demands More Engineering Discipline
Simon Willison's Weblog·40 days ago·Commentary
In a Substack post, Charity Majors identifies 2025 as the year AI inverted the economics of code production — making it free and instant where it was once expensive and slow. Lines of code shifted from carefully maintained assets to disposable, regenerable outputs practically overnight. Yet her title argues the shift demands greater engineering discipline, not less, as judgment and oversight become the true scarce resource.
