lauren: AI makes code flow like a torrent, software needs to be rewritten to adapt to agents
lauren believes that code is shifting from arriving drop by drop to a continuous flow like a rushing river, and software needs extensive rebuilding and rewriting to adapt to this faster pace. She points out that AI brings every engineer an extremely elastic and capable workforce, and the only way forward is to evolve systems so that agents lacking context can also work smoothly, turning what is easy to do into what is right to do. Codebases are becoming organic architecture, where agents' contributions grow around the constraints and guardrails you design, so good software engineering is more important than ever.
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Here is Proton CTO's AI manifesto, that I obtained multiple copies of https://t.co/6o7G2teu9A https://t.co/d92L1kv8AU
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we will need to rebuild and rewrite much of software to adapt to a new, faster pace.
code used to arrive one drop at a time. soon, if not already, code will be written as if it were a continuous stream, like a violent river twisting and turning as it pleases.
this is not a new thing: big tech cos have had to deal with this with the enormous scale of their engineering teams. but now ai has brought an incredibly elastic and capable workforce wielded by every engineer. this is your problem now, and the only way to adapt is to evolve your systems so agents - even and especially the ones with little context about the right way of doing things - can thrive. make the easy thing the right thing.
your codebase is becoming organic architecture. agent contributions grow around the constraints and guardrails you’ve designed. good software engineering matters even more now! and no, the continuous stream of code is not something you have to watch helplessly. be more ambitious and design systems, frameworks, and languages to control the chaos.
the time for mourning coding is long over