The Third Golden Age
summary
Grady Booch reviews historical waves of computing since the 1940s and argues current AI and automation fears repeat past transitions (structured programming, high-level languages, low-code) rather than ending the profession. He names a forthcoming “Third Golden Age,” explains why system thinking, human judgment and responsibility remain essential as tools evolve, and links his perspective to embodied cognition and AI that interacts with the physical world.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00The history of abstraction
- 2:12First golden age of computing
- 3:59Second golden age: objects
- 6:28Third golden age: AI and scale
- 11:31Reality check on AI coding
- 16:53AI as a tool, not a replacement
- 26:49The architect's future
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