There is probably a more direct route from AI models to the software we want than having agents work with code.

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AI coding agents may represent an indirect path to software creation, similar to how early automobiles mimicked horse carriages. As AI improves at generating code, the traditional practices of writing clean, maintainable code for human readers may become obsolete. Future AI systems might bypass code entirely, translating natural language directly into machine code or discovering more efficient representations of software that humans haven't conceived yet. This raises questions about whether code itself will remain necessary once agents can generate, test, and deploy software without human review.

Is code a cow path?