[ryanackley]

You're talking about deterministic behavior vs. probabilistic behavior and yes some discourse lines up with what you describe.

I don't think it's the case with this article. It focuses on the meta-concerns of people doing software engineering and how AI fits into that. I think he hits it on the head when he talks about Program Entropy.

A huge part of building a software product is managing entropy. Specifically, how you can add more code and more people while maintaining a reasonable forward velocity. More specifically, you have to maintain a system so you make it so all of those people understand how all the pieces fit together and how to add more of those pieces. Yes, I can see AI one day making this easier but right now, it oftentimes makes entropy worse.