# How Software Development Is Changing from Programming to Air Traffic Control

DevFeed: [How Software Development Is Changing from Programming to Air Traffic Control](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/air-traffic-control-39970.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/air-traffic-control>)

Author: Kent Beck

Published: 2026-07-01T14:25:26Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Software Design: Tidy First?](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/software-design-tidy-first.md>)

Topics: [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [proof of work](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/proof-of-work.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>)

Tags: [audio](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/audio.md>), [compute](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compute.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [proof-of-work](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/proof-of-work.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [sponsored](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sponsored.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>)

## AI overview

Keith Adams and Kent discuss how a changing software-building playbook could affect the economics of technology and the work of programming, including compute, Jevons paradox, and software as "proof of work."

## Source excerpt

Keith Adams has spent his career at the systems layer, with nine years at VMware, the founding of Facebook's HHVM team, and a run as chief architect at Slack.