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date: 2026-08-10
abstract: >
Software engineering does so little epistemic work that it hardly earns the name "engineering." The field has never learned to distinguish provenance — where an artifact came from — from warrant — why anyone is entitled to rely on it. Authorship, a passing test suite, and a completed review are routinely mistaken for the second when they are only ever the first; libraries are the rare exception, where warrant is actually constructed and amortized across users who never read the source. LLM-generated code inherits neither comforting story, and the discomfort that provokes is not a new problem but the oldest one in the profession, finally felt without the anaesthetic that provenance usually supplies. That discomfort is worth welcoming.
tags: [meta]
tags: [ai, tech, nonfiction/philosophy, education]
status: Working model
confidence: 72
importance: 3
confidence: 60
importance: 4
evidence: 2
scope: average
novelty: moderate
scope: broad
novelty: idiosyncratic
practicality: moderate
confidence-history: [10]
confidence-history: [10, 60]
history:
- date: "2026-08-09"
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