Thorsten Ball: 'Is Software Turning Into a Liquid?' — Anthropic's MCP Creator David Soria Parra Says Most Code Will Be 'Ephemeral One-Time Use'

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In his Register Spill newsletter (#80, late March), Thorsten Ball explored whether software is becoming liquid — no longer durable artifacts but disposable, regenerated on demand. Anthropic's David Soria Parra (co-creator of MCP) confirmed the thesis: 'Most code will just be ephemeral one time use.' Ball also highlighted John Regehr's 'Zero-Degree-of-Freedom LLM Coding' approach — constraining AI coding so it can't do the job badly, because 'when an LLM has the option of doing something poorly, we simply can't trust it to make the right choices.' For builders: the economics of software have changed when implementation is cheap.