S05E01 - Will GenAI kill software?
From Half Stack Data Science by Half Stack Data Science
March 16, 2026 · 51 min · Season 5 · Episode 1
About this episode
The episode discusses the implications of GenAI on productivity, education, wisdom, cognitive debt, and the future of software companies.
In the first episode of the new season, we discuss: whether it's a good thing that we can produce more with GenAI, how GenAI will force us to consider the purpose of education, how we are supposed to develop wisdom if GenAI can just build everything for us, how AI-written code introduces "cognitive debt", and in a roundabout way we discuss whether GenAI will kill software companies --- David’s book, The Well-Grounded Data Analyst is out! https://www.manning.com/books/the-well-grounded-data-analyst If you want to find out more, we have a whole episode about it: https://halfstackdatascience.com/s3-finale-the-well-grounded-data-analyst-with-david-asboth
Topics covered
- GenAI
- software development
- education
- cognitive debt
- software companies
Mentioned in this episode
Products: The Well-Grounded Data Analyst
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