Editors’ Summary: Paul Taylor, professor of health informatics at UCL, reflects on his lifelong relationship with programming and the rapid displacement of software engineers by AI coding tools. Drawing on personal experience using Claude Code and the fictional Mythos model, he traces how AI has moved from writing code snippets to autonomously developing, testing, and maintaining entire software systems. The piece is particularly timely in its account of the political and economic fallout of these advances—from the collapse of SaaS stock valuations to Anthropic’s conflict with the Trump administration—and raises urgent questions about cybersecurity, labor, and what it means to “know” how to program in an AI-saturated world.
Editors’ Choice: The advance of vibe coding
