AI Is Creating More Software Than We Can Understand

For decades, software engineering had a fairly predictable constraint. Writing software was expensive. Every feature required engineers, every system required implementation, and every new capability required time, effort, and people. That constraint shaped how we built software. Today, it is disappearing. AI can generate code faster than most teams can review it, and that changes something fundamental about the job. The Old Bottleneck For most of software history, engineering organizations optimized for output....

June 18, 2026