What Andrew Kelley thinks about AI and jobs

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Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.

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31 Jul 2026

Our readingSoftware quality has historically been maintained by engineers' own will combined with their strong negotiating position in the job market, rather than by other forces.

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Their wordsWe are learning that software quality was maintained only through the will of software engineers combined with their accidentally strong negotiation position in the job market.

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