As AI takes on more, the human role moves to judgment and trust

Grant’s three scenarios, replayed for software engineers

1. AI writes the code

AI takes over

Implementation

Humans own

Framing, design, verification

2. AI designs systems

AI takes over

Code and architecture

Humans own

Domain judgment, trade-offs, ownership

3. AI does it end to end

AI takes over

Building and running

Humans own

Accountability, trust, growing people