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Software 2.0: Code is Cheap, Good Taste is Not
Software 2.0: Code is Cheap, Good Taste is NotLast week I shipped a feature that would have taken me ~4 days in about 45 minutes: 8 parallel solutions explored, 1 verified, reviewed, deployed. That's not vibe coding. It's a process. I'm calling it Software 2.0. I just published a long essay formalizing how I've been using LLMs to ship production software - not as a novelty, but as a disciplined engineering process with real verification, real quality controls, and real results. It covers how programmer's roles are going to shift from specifying programs to verifying them, how LLMs change the math on technical debt, multi-agent workflows, verification pipelines, and why "having good taste" is the one thing LLMs can't automate. READ: https://aaronstannard.com/beginning-of-software-2.0/ This is the first in a series. More coming. — Aaron |
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I write about .NET, open source software, the Microsoft ecosystem, my adventures with startups, and outer space.
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