The Structure of Engineering Revolutions
Kuhn's paradigm shifts, playing out in the argument about AI-assisted coding.
Originally published at webdirections.org.
Thomas Kuhn wrote about how scientific paradigms shift — and why the people most invested in the old one are often the last to come around. Much the same seems to be playing out in the argument among experienced engineers about AI-assisted development. An attempt to make sense of why the "tooling debate" is really something larger.