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This Is How We Get Moral A.I. Companies

Paul Ford • April 26, 2026

AI was never meant to replace humans, it was supposed to be an add on. It's down to how the tool is being used. Not the tool itself.

Tamara Porras / New York Times

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The New York Times

The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived

Paul Ford • February 18, 2026

We're entering a new renaissance of software development. We should all be excited, despite the uncertainties that lie ahead.

Brendan Conroy / New York Times

WIRED

The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down

Paul Ford • October 27, 2025

Bloomberg Businessweek

What is Code?

Paul Ford • June 11, 2015

Ftrain

Ftrain – Paul’s Personal Blog

You can always read Paul’s thoughts on tech and a whole lot of other stuff on his personal blog, Ftrain, which he’s been writing on for one thousand years.

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AI Can Make Software Now. That Changes Everything, with Paul Ford

April 29, 2026

By now you’ve probably heard of “vibe coding”: creating software from scratch by prompting AI to generate the source code for you, instead of writing it...