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Grady Booch @booch.com · 30/09/2026

Having contributed to the advance of software engineering, it is sad to see the rise of a new profession, slopware engineering.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 30/09/2026

It’s artificial intelligence. In the history of computing, this puerile attempt to rename it because of the simpleminded whims of an incompetent and corrupt narcissist will be seen as a failure of leadership, an abandonment of intellectual integrity, and an embarrassment for any who join with him.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 29/09/2026

If you take OpenAI’s Dot and have it communicate with another Dot, in scientific terms this is what we call connecting the dots.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 28/09/2026

To assert that any contemporary AI can think or is conscious represents a particularly emaciated meaning of those words, and suggests that any author of such assertions has a profound misunderstanding of the exquisite nature of what it means to be human.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 28/09/2026

I have reason to believe that the mind is computable. However.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 26/09/2026

I can’t decide if people who assert that contemporary AIs can think or are conscious do so out of fear or out of envy. But I can say that any such people do so either out of emotion or perhaps driven by some pecuniary interest in it being true, not from any fully informed or defensible position.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 25/09/2026

The term "artificial intelligence" was coined before the term "software" first appeared in print.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 23/09/2026

I have absolutely no idea how anyone or any agency could ban recursive self-improvement. Alternately, I suggest you legislate a ban against naked pointers in programming languages, for at least that would gain you some political capital among conservatives.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

8. often, when people say LLMs "can do" something they mean LLMs can produce output that looks like the output of doing something 9. producing something that looks like the output of doing something is not the same thing as doing it

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 20/09/2026

I think it would be appropriate to call it not the next AI Winter but rather the Great Descent.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 19/09/2026

It is simultaneously strange and humbling to realize that the term “artificial intelligence” was coined almost a decade before the term “software engineering”.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 18/09/2026

It seems to me that the philosophy of EA/longtermism has consequences not unlike that of Christian evangelicals who long for the rapture: optimizing life for some mysterious utopian future at the expense of attending to the wonder and the beauty and the possibility of the now.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 17/09/2026

…another important reason for the decline of the UML was that, after the release of 1.0, there was a small but very vocal faction that wanted to turn it into a programming language, which resulted in extraordinary amounts of complexity.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 17/09/2026

Wonderful article. It is correct that one of its primary intents was to visualize and reason about a system under construction and as a consequence, most of the artifacts I expected one to make using the UML would be thrown away. I’d add that a…

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 17/09/2026

I have read many well researched, well reasoned, and well argued papers regarding the nature of software engineering. This is not one of them. arxiv.org/html/2606.05...

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The End of Software Engineering:How AI Agents Are Fundamentally Restructuring the Software Paradigm

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 16/09/2026

Contemporary artificial intelligence is to cognition as artificial sweeteners are to good nutrition: full of misleading hype, distracting, and when misunderstood and misused, dangerous to one's well-being.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 16/09/2026

I don't fear superintelligence. I said this at TED a decade ago, and I stand by that point of view today. Among other things, any so-called super intelligence that could be an existential threat to humanity would also have to be super-embodied. And that's not going to happen. t.co/Vyp3YDWz2o

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https://www.ted.com/speakers/grady_booch

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 10/09/2026

History has give us The Traitorous 8 (Fairchild) and The Apostate 11 (Anthropic). Clearly the next group of defectors would be called the Claudefathers.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 07/09/2026

Saying that a false thing is true does not make that thing true, no matter how many times or how many people say it.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 07/09/2026

AGI has, in fact, not arrived. Unless perhaps you mean we have reached peak Authentic Granular Ignorance.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 05/09/2026

I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the best Arithmetician that euer breathed, and he reduceth thy dayes into a short number.. — Richard Brathwaith’s, The Yong Mans Gleanings, 1613 The first published occurrence of the term “computer”.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 05/09/2026

I do not fear the rise of artificial intelligence. But I do fear the rise of a small set of billionaires and companies who seek to build such things to increase their power and their wealth, all without transparency or accountability.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 03/09/2026

In my lifetime, I have been witness to the extraordinary growth of information coupled with the frightening decline of applied wisdom.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 26/08/2026

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in our prompts. -- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II (revised)