AI Engineering Discipline — Charity Majors

Charity Majors just published the clearest take I’ve seen on what AI actually changes for software engineering.

Her thesis is the opposite of most takes: code production became cheap, but engineering discipline didn’t disappear. It moved upstream. Specs, validation, observability matter more now, not less.

The line that names the whole mental model: “Code stops being an asset and starts acting as a cache: a materialized view of understanding, useful while current, disposable when stale.”

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