Netlify CTO says coding is dead — HN asks if she ever coded (thenewstack.io)
Lawson coined "AX" (agent experience = UX + DX) and predicted a billion new apps by 2029. Engineers, she argued, now orchestrate AI rather than write code.
HN's sharpest reply: the job was never just coding. Multiple veterans noted that the hard work — untangling assumptions, corner cases, logic conflicts in requirements — is what AI doesn't do.
The thread also noted Netlify is losing customers to bare AWS. A platform CTO declaring the platform era over has obvious incentives.
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