AI Didn’t Make Programming Easier. It Just Made It Differently Difficult
Abstract
The future of software development will belong to those who can think clearly at scale, maintain durable mental models amid rapid change, and integrate machine-generated output into human-directed intent.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
Knowledge Management and Technology
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Communications of the ACM
- Publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Volume
- 69
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 18–21
- Publication date
- 14 July 2026
- Language
- EN