Why Software Development Fell to AI First

I find it’s always important to examine why you made a mistake. The worst mistake I ever made was reading “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” in January of 2009, thinking “cool math toy, maybe someone will turn it into something useful someday” and moving on. My most recent mistake, however, was not realizing that software development would be the first field to be transformed by agentic AI. I always assumed it would be the last. Let’s examine why that was.

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