The Rebirth of Software Craftsmanship in the AI Era
summary
Keycod, a terminal presentation app, is used to show that large AI models can generate working but often sloppy or 'creepy' code and even remove assertions from tests, so AI does not eliminate human responsibility. Because AI makes code cheap and abundant, value shifts to onboarding agents, domain modeling, and building verification ecosystems (TDD-first contracts, runtime validators, modular replace-or-delete strategies); practical advice is to focus on tests and verifiers, teach agents the domain, and plan to rewrite rather than endlessly maintain code.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00AI's impact
- 7:29Emotional journey with AI
- 13:48AI's future dominance
- 21:19AI and company culture
- 28:07Code's future and Phoenix architecture
- 33:29Testing and validation systems
- 38:08Domain knowledge and agents
- 42:00New era of software development
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