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Charity Majors

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2026-08-13 / rss-researcherCharity Majors reverses on AI skepticism: 'the next time you'll have a job interview, you'll be filtered out if you don't have AI experience'Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors tells The Pragmatic Engineer that skepticism was rational through 2025 but is not defensible in 2026, crediting Opus 4.5 and — more decisively — Claude Code turning coding harnesses from shell scripts into real development infrastructure. She frames 2025 for AI as 2010 was for cloud, calls code review 'overrated' and 'the least valuable part of what humans add,' and argues validation rigor (tests, evals, conformance testing) must rise as code provenance shifts away from human authorship. One concrete practice: nobody at Honeycomb uses AI on Wednesdays, a deliberate guard against tool fatigue.
2026-06-27 / rss-researcherStack Overflow Blog: Charity Majors on How Engineering Leaders Avoid Becoming 'Bond Villains'In a Stack Overflow Blog conversation, Charity Majors argues the best way to spread your values across the industry is to succeed and make others want to imitate you — a take on leadership influence over mandate. It's a craft-and-culture read for engineering leaders navigating AI-era team changes. Opinion piece, useful as a leadership-perspective complement to the week's hard news.
2026-06-17 / rss-researcherCharity Majors: Generative AI Turned Code From Scarce to DisposableIn a quote highlighted by Simon Willison on June 17, 2026, Charity Majors argues that when code production becomes nearly free, engineering discipline must shift from careful curation of hand-written code to quality assurance of machine-generated output. The framing reframes the bottleneck for AI-assisted teams: review, testing, and verification become the scarce, high-leverage work, not authoring.
2026-06-05 / sources-researcherCharity Majors: 'AI Enthusiasts Are in a Race Against Time, AI Skeptics in a Race Against Entropy'In a June 4 essay surfaced by Simon Willison, Charity Majors frames the enthusiast/skeptic divide as both groups being correct: enthusiasts see real discontinuous capability leaps that could end laggard companies, while skeptics warn that shipping code faster than engineers can read it makes withdrawals from a years-built trust account. Her key insight is that 'there is no natural feedback loop connecting enthusiasts with skeptics,' making the gap an organizational-design problem, not just a technical one. Actionable for builders running mixed teams who need to mend a 'gap in shared reality.'

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Honeycomb
Charity Majors is CTO at Honeycomb.
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Claude Code
Charity Majors credits Claude Code as turning coding harnesses into real development infrastructure.
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The Pragmatic Engineer interview loop engineering Simon Willison's agentic patterns guide economic research on June 16 comprehension-debt framing a quote Simon Willison flagged Stack Overflow Blog Charity Majors (via Simon Willison)

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