I recently had a chat with Charlie about how AI will impact the profession of software engineering among other related topics.
You can find time stamps for our conversation below (easier to navigate on YouTube, link here, or on various streaming services)
00:00 Friendly introduction
01:05 What made Charlie go into writing about AI?
02:32 What has changed in AI over the last 2.5 years?
04:13 Who will AI benefit the most?
06:03: How will AI impact the work of software engineers?
08:01 The major concern about AI’s impacts on coding
10:22 How Charlie uses AI in his writing process
12:06 Vulnerability in vibe coding
13:20 The longer trajectory of AI development
18:06 How GPT-4, GPT-5, Claude and Grok 4 compares to each other as writing assistants
22:40 Near-term future of AI agents
30:08 AI impact on social media
32:00 Should young people still pursue software engineering as a career path?
34:42 Why AI writing is uninteresting
38:16 Raising a child in the age of AI
43:03 Outro
Links to further reading
Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence by Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar and Ruyu Chen (August 2025)
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing by Sheryl Estrada/Fortune (August 2025)
