Charlie Guo is the author of Artificial Ignorance. In my humble opinion, the best weekly breakdown of AI news on Substack.

I recently had a chat with Charlie about how AI will impact the profession of software engineering among other related topics.

You can find time stamps for our conversation below (easier to navigate on YouTube, link here, or on various streaming services)

00:00 Friendly introduction

01:05 What made Charlie go into writing about AI?

02:32 What has changed in AI over the last 2.5 years?

04:13 Who will AI benefit the most?

06:03: How will AI impact the work of software engineers?

08:01 The major concern about AI’s impacts on coding

10:22 How Charlie uses AI in his writing process

12:06 Vulnerability in vibe coding

13:20 The longer trajectory of AI development

18:06 How GPT-4, GPT-5, Claude and Grok 4 compares to each other as writing assistants

22:40 Near-term future of AI agents

30:08 AI impact on social media

32:00 Should young people still pursue software engineering as a career path?

34:42 Why AI writing is uninteresting

38:16 Raising a child in the age of AI

43:03 Outro

Links to further reading

Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence by Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar and Ruyu Chen (August 2025)

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing by Sheryl Estrada/Fortune (August 2025)

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