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The False Equivalence of Code as Craft
Why comparing coding to woodworking, painting, or knitting misses the fundamental nature of software in an age of AI agents.
Yasir Ahmad
Principal Software Engineer at Phlo, based in the UK. I’ve worked mostly in TypeScript for the past 5-6 years, with a personal affinity for backend, infrastructure, and distributed systems (alongside dabbling in Rust, Go, and Python).
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