Charity Majors: AI Made Code Disposable — But Demands More Engineering Discipline
Simon Willison's Weblog41 days agoCommentaryIn 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.
Report: Meta’s New AI Unit Faces Engineer Unrest
TechCrunch AI45 days agoBusinessTechCrunch reports that Meta’s months-old AI unit is facing severe internal dissatisfaction among engineers. The brief article says the 6,500-person organization is described in a new report as being on the verge of revolt. No specific causes, executive responses, product impacts, or evidence beyond the cited report are included in the provided article text.