Code is cheap, software is not @VMwareTanzu
Code is cheap, software is not  @VMwareTanzu
Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
"I kept hearing, 'Well, I wish I would have never went to school. I wish I would have never learned how to program because I have all these tools that just output code.'" - @DanVega

His reframe: code is cheap, software is not. Outputting code is not the same as building software. Requirements, the SDLC, all the things we have been doing forever - they did not disappear because the typing got fast.

Clipped from a conversation on what AI is actually good at besides writing code with @DanVega, @thecote, and David Zendzian on Tanzu Catsup. Subscribe: @VMwareTanzu

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