The future of code is exciting and terrifying
The Vergecast
- Published
- March 17, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 6m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Apr 29, 2026
Discusses anthropic.
Summary
A new era of software development is upon us. Career coders are no longer writing code, but rather managing teams of agents that do the work on their behalf. You can Claude Code your way through seemingly just about any problem. So what does that mean for the software we use, and the people who make it? Paul Ford, a writer and technologist who both writes…
Show notes
A new era of software development is upon us. Career coders are no longer writing code, but rather managing teams of agents that do the work on their behalf. You can Claude Code your way through seemingly just about any problem. So what does that mean for the software we use, and the people who make it? Paul Ford, a writer and technologist who both writes about code and manages a team of coders, joins the show to explain his somewhat conflicted excitement about the new crop of AI tools, and his
Themes
- anthropic