software doesn't need to be readable anymore. it needs to be explainable.

I sat down with the folks at AI21 Labs for their YAAP podcast at the AI:Engineer World Fair, and we went deep on something I've been chewing on for most of this year: almost every decision in computing for the last forty years was made with a human in the loop, as the reader, the writer, or the operator. What happens when that stops being true?YAAP by AI21 Labs — "Your Code Doesn't Need to Be Readable Anymore" (21 minutes)Here's the gist, written up properly, plus chapter links at the bottom if you want to jump into a specific part of the conversation.Software doesn't need to be readable by a human. It needs to be explainable to a human.the economics of AI are cooked, and I still haven't written code by hand in two yearsThe opening hot take was that AI economics are absolutely cooked because adoption is nowhere near what is needed to achieve ROI on the amount of capital deployed. This is why all the labs are hiring aggressively to staff up professional services organizations around…