Run Out to Meet It

Charity Majors and Kent Beck discuss how AI coding tools have rapidly upended conventional career advice for software engineers. Majors, who spent a year urging engineers to learn to code to stay relevant, found that advice became obsolete within three months. The conversation explores why experienced engineers who built careers on writing beautiful, readable code are struggling more than others, why junior developers may have an unexpected advantage in this new landscape, and what it means that everyone's knowledge baseline has effectively been reset — nobody has a head start anymore.