software doesn't need to be readable anymore. it needs to be explainable.
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SummaryGeoffrey Huntley argues on AI21's YAAP podcast that software design should shift from optimizing for human readability to optimizing for AI explainability, challenging forty years of computing conventions built around humans as readers, writers, and operators.
Why it mattersFrames a concrete paradigm question for code in the agentic era; this post is a pointer to the podcast rather than a full writeup, so the weight sits in the framing.
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