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Standing on Surfaces That Move

May 28, 2026 · by Michael Morrison

AI moved the locus of value in software from writing code to deciding what's worth writing. The same move, lagging by a few years, is arriving in the creative arts — and software, a field where the surface has always moved, may have something useful to say about how to meet it.