Kent Beck interviews Keith Adams — veteran systems engineer behind Facebook's HHVM team and former chief architect at Slack — about the seismic shift in software development driven by AI. They explore the economics of this transition through concepts like Jevons paradox and software as 'proof of work,' discuss a future where compute capacity becomes the primary competitive moat, and reflect on what developers lose in the process: the flow state of programming, replaced by something more akin to air traffic control.
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