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title: "Air Traffic Control"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/air-traffic-control-5jegci7u4
source_url: https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/air-traffic-control
type: article
source: "Software Design: Tidy First?"
published: 2026-07-01T14:30:12.030Z
updated: 2026-07-01T14:43:41.181Z
tags: ["ai-assisted-development"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
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# Air Traffic Control

**[Software Design: Tidy First?](https://daily.dev/sources/tidyfirst)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

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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