Has the AI Disruption Arrived – and Will It Just Make Software Cheaper and More Accessible?

<2> Has the AI Disruption Arrived – and Will It Just Make Software Cheaper and More Accessible?
<3> Paul Ford, Co-Founder of Aboard, Believes AI Coding Can Accelerate Software Development, but May Not Deprofessionalize It Entirely
<4> In a recent guest essay for the New York Times, Paul Ford argued that the AI disruption has arrived, and it’s fun. He believes that AI coding can accelerate software development, making it more accessible to everyone, but not deprofessionalizing it entirely. Ford, who is the co-founder of AI-driven business software platform Aboard, wrote that he has been using Anthropic’s Claude Code to knock off side projects that had sat in folders for a decade or longer. He claims that with the help of AI, he can do hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of work for fun, for the price of the Claude $200-a-month subscription.
<5> Ford believes that there are millions, maybe billions, of software products that don’t exist but should. He thinks that people want these things to do their jobs, or to help others, but they can’t find the budget. They make do with spreadsheets and to-do lists. Ford doesn’t