Posts tagged: engineering

One experienced engineer with a group of AI agents may soon be able to write an entire application alone. But building a good software product still needs disagreement, experimentation, and perspectives beyond our own. If AI takes over coding, the human side of software may matter even more.

Meet Trade Tycoon, my latest weekend side project: a Monopoly-style game I hacked together after trying to play online with school friends across different cities. It was also a fun excuse to try Expo Web.

When code becomes cheap to produce, the hard part of software development shifts to deciding what should exist, proving it works, and deciding who gets to trust it. My predictions for teams, code review, open source, computing costs, and the software we use.

AI can write a feature in minutes. That does not mean it can own the result. The difference between vibe coding and agentic engineering is not which model you use, but how you make decisions, verify the work, and take responsibility for what ships.

"Can you own this?" is a question I ask my team more often than almost any other. But I realized recently that I use the word "ownership" constantly without ever really unpacking what it means to me. So here it is - what I actually expect when I ask someone...