Charity Majors: Generative AI Turned Code From Scarce to Disposable

Simon Willison's Blog·low signal

In 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.