By Michael Cooney
Publication Date: 2026-02-04 23:34:00
Software development is in an absolute frenzy right now, Scott said. “You have very, very senior people, the best coders you’ve ever met in your life, who are just completely overwhelmed trying to keep up with the rate of progress that’s happening right now.”
Optimizing AI development for agents or humans?
Sam Altman, co-founder & CEO of OpenAI, suggested the future of software development will be directed more at agent use, rather than human use.
“How are we going to rewrite all software to be equally usable by humans and AI? There’s like, a bunch of weird quirks right now about trying to do that with the software. Does that change the architecture of the software itself, where you’re going to optimize it for agents more so than humans? It fundamentally changes how you build software,” Altman said.
“Maybe a lot of software will get rewritten so that it’s primarily or largely used by AI, but also still works for people using it the…
