Coding Is the Easier Part

We’re told to put Artificial Intelligence into everything. This book is about figuring out where to leave it out. The AI pitch is oddly seductive and a bit too convenient. Think of software that writes itself, medical bots that cure cancer, and a civilization that only needs to collect its universal basic income once a month. But step inside the craft, and the evidence gets messier: A patchy server that won’t restart, a coding agent that is always apologizing, and Alexa that will probably misread Krešimir’s name. Coding Is the Easier Part is about that overlooked reality, where people, incentives, abstractions, and hidden forces shape software long before and long after a line of code is synthesized. Drawing on unusual stories from the Incas’ first databases, Cold War cybernetics, the Ethereum Merge, WordPress drama, and today’s AGI benchmark theater, Krešimir Koncic closes the gap between what the industry’s loudest panelists promise and what makers actually have to build, repair, and adapt. Written for developers, designers, managers, entrepreneurs, and curious readers trying to make sense of AI without the hype or the doomsday narrative, the book explores an increasingly capable braid of makers and machines it calls “speckled intelligence”. As that braid reshapes our virtual worlds, its human makers remain irreplaceable, with an increasingly important role and more work to do. So, whether Coding Is the Easier Part sounds like heresy, cope, a lazy jab, or a combination of all three, a dilemma remains. What if coding isn’t the easier part for us, but simply the easiest part of software making to give away?