Coding Is Not Solved – Alex Ewerlöf Notes

Alex Ewerlöf Sep 26, 2026 10 4 Share Disclaimer: you are about to read a lot of opinions, many of them have references but some are the result of my own experience building with AI and building AI systems in the past 4 years. Regardless, beware of the straw-man fallacy: just because one argument doesn’t map to your belief system, it doesn’t mean the rest are invalid. I should also say upfront that I’m not anti-AI. If you’ve been following my work, you know that I was an early adopter of not only using LLM-powered coding tools, but building my own harness, teaching these topics and building LLM-powered products. It’s not about fear of AI but rather challenging the brain-dead narrative that asserts “coding is solved” and engineering is about “taste” now.

Tell me you don’t understand software without literally using those words!!!