Quoting Carson Gross
- ID
- 33402
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 09 Oct 2026, 5:05 AM
- Fetched
- 09 Oct 2026, 5:32 AM
- Provider
- Simon Willison
- Category
- developer-ai
- Original URL
- https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/8/carson-gross/
- Source URL
- https://simonwillison.net/atom/everything/
Summary
- Score
- 3.0
- Created
- 09 Oct 2026, 5:33 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersvibe_codersai_ml_learners
What happened
Simon Willison's weblog reproduces a short quote from Carson Gross dated 8 October 2026: computer programming is fundamentally (1) problem-solving with computers and (2) learning to control complexity while doing so, and he says he cannot imagine a future where those skills are less valuable than today, so programming remains a viable career even with AI tools. The post is a quotation only — no product, benchmark, data, or policy content — and it carries Simon Willison's tag counts (ai 2,269, careers 84, computer-science 16, carson-gross 4), which are cumulative blog tags rather than community engagement metrics.
Why it matters
There is nothing here to act on: no version, price, date-sensitive change, or tool decision. The only usable takeaway is an argument, not a fact — if you are deciding where to spend the next six months, this quote is a claim that complexity control and problem decomposition stay valuable as AI tools write more code; treat it as an opinion to argue with, not evidence, and do not treat the tag numbers as a signal of how many builders care.
Discussion angle
Ask the room to name one concrete task from the past month where 'controlling complexity' beat 'prompting the model' — if nobody can, the quote's claim is untested for your team; if several can, that is the skill to keep training.