We Were Never Asked to Write Code. We Were Asked to Solve Problems.

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EXANTE CTO Richard Forss draws on the dot-com crash and AI breakthroughs to explain why AI will help engineers solve bigger problems, not replace them.
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EXANTE CTO Richard Forss reflects on the dot-com crash, past AI hype cycles, and the real impact of modern coding assistants. Drawing parallels with radiology and DeepMind’s protein-folding breakthrough, he argues that AI can make technical work faster without eliminating the need for human expertise. The deeper lesson is that software engineers were never hired simply to write code. Their job is to solve problems, and AI gives them more opportunities to do so.