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"The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born"
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-old-world-of-tech-is-dying/
This ones leans a bit more into theory and politics than I usually do when writing about the industry, but this moment in time warrants it, I think.
@baldur I like the subtlety of not finishing the Gramsci quote but mentioning the names of two monsters in the article.
@baldur really excellent article! and i appreciate that you didn't specifically mention the time of monsters or who the monsters are ...
From a software engineering perspective one of the things I notice about many (most? all?) of the uses of "AI" are that they attempt to address the symptoms of things that most software has historically done very badly (unnecessary complexity, lack of attention to security, the overall approach of initially building incredibly-buggy software and then trying to improve it by testing or analysis rather than getting it right to beginn with) -- and at the same time reinforce all those problematic aspects (additional layers of complexity, MCP and other security disasters, halluciantion-based code). And I think that your "based in and reinforcing empire" perspective complements that. So as empire crumbles, there's the opportunity (and necessity) for a badly-needed restart.
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