Coding Is NOT Solved
Alex Ewerlu00F6f Notes ● Covered by 2 sources
Opinion — commentary, not a factual news event.
The author argues that coding is not solved by LLMs and that teams should still prioritize reading, testing, and accountability for production software. The post notes that on Hacker News it reached spot 2 with 473 points and 476 comments as of 2026-09-29. As a result, the author calls for narrower, well-scoped AI use cases (like translation and summarization) rather than pushing AI into every engineering surface where non-functional requirements dominate costs.
Why it matters
The newsletter argues that faster code generation hasn’t solved software engineering because production systems still need reliability, security, maintainability, judgment, and accountable ownership. It warns that stochastic models and large unreviewed diffs can trade long-term understanding for short-term velocity.
