In Media

The New York Times

A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It.

Paul Ford • September 12, 2026

Just because A.I. is revolutionizing coding, doesn't mean it will automatically revolutionize our apps.

Jared Oriel

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The New York Times

Code Is Free Speech. Seriously.

Paul Ford • July 13, 2026

We won’t get the A.I. regulation we deserve until we change how we think about the right to code.

Ben Hickey

The New York Times

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.

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.

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.

Podcast Appearances:

Slate's What Next: TBD podcast

A.I-pocalypse now?

September 11, 2026

How freaked out should we be by the ‘Hugging Face Incident’? Paul Ford appears on Slate's TBD podcast, discussing some disturbing AI developments, and asking for deep breaths from everyone.

The Enterprise AI Show

Your AI Project Doesn’t Need More Agents (with Rich Ziade)

August 26, 2026

Brandon Whichard speaks with Rich, Aboard's co-founder and CEO, about why enterprise AI projects fail without real discovery, why "agents" have been oversold as a headcount play, and why organizational urgency, not new tooling, is what actually makes digital transformation succeed.

The Atlantic

How AI Is Changing Code – Paul Ford with Nicholas Thompson

June 10, 2026

Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic, sits down with Paul Ford to discuss how AI has changed software.

Design Better Podcast

Paul Ford on why everything is changing (but not how you think)

June 3, 2026

Hosts Eli Woolery and Aarron Walter chat with Paul about the strange paradox of AI that makes ideation blindingly fast but leaves the hard work of product thinking as slow as it ever was.

In Media

A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It.

Paul Ford's Writing:

Code Is Free Speech. Seriously.

This Is How We Get Moral A.I. Companies

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

Ftrain – Paul’s Personal Blog

The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down

What is Code?

Podcast Appearances:

A.I-pocalypse now?

Your AI Project Doesn’t Need More Agents (with Rich Ziade)

How AI Is Changing Code – Paul Ford with Nicholas Thompson

Paul Ford on why everything is changing (but not how you think)

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

“I Can’t Believe It’s Not Software!” Paul Ford on AI and the Asterisk*

The future of code is exciting and terrifying

A.I. Is a Hyperobject

Anthropic’s Newest Model Blew This Founder’s Mind — And Made Him Uncomfortable

Retro Tech, New AI, and the Blackmailing Bot — With Paul Ford

Is the AI Bubble About to Pop?

Paul Ford Eases Steve’s Real Panic About Artificial Intelligence

How to Fix AI with Paul Ford