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Paul Ford in the NYT: 'Now that everyone can code, it's become clearer why many shouldn't'
Simon Willison quoted a passage from Paul Ford's 2026-09-12 New York Times piece 'A.I. Was Supposed to Give Us New Killer Apps. What Happened?' Ford's argument is that the developer-extinction read was wrong, because cutting-edge software still requires humans coordinating craft, and that AI's real effect is making it cheap to do someone else's job badly, which is part of why so many AI projects fail. It is the sharpest one-paragraph framing of the labor question published this week and comes from a practitioner, not a forecaster.
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