AI has made writing code cheaper than ever. But understanding a system and changing it safely hasn't gotten easier, and that gap now decides how much you can hand to a machine.

In 2016, Geoffrey Hinton argued that AI would soon replace radiologists, yet demand for radiologists has since surged. The reason, this article argues, is that AI reduced the cost…

AI has made writing code cheaper than ever. But understanding a system and changing it safely hasn't gotten easier, and that gap now decides how much you can hand to a machine.

In 2026, AI writes code at incredible speed. Cursor and Claude Code agents read whole repos, the CLI...